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cron-apt package

  1. Bug #1578954
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1578954

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Ken Sharp (kennybobs) wrote :

My guess is that cron-apt will actually run with multiple cron daemons, so making cron a dependency would break that.

cron-apt
  Depends: apt
  Recommends: liblockfile1
  Recommends: <mail-transport-agent>
    courier-mta
    esmtp-run
    exim4-daemon-light
    msmtp-mta
    nullmailer
    opensmtpd
    sendmail-bin
    ssmtp
    dma
    exim4-daemon-heavy
    postfix
 |Recommends: cron
  Recommends: <cron-daemon>
    bcron
    cronie
    systemd-cron
    cron

It would be nice if someone could tell us for certain though.