Hi,
back in 2018 Matthias did a small modification within the cron package that resulted in forked tree and small different binary package for cron. Basically the only difference is this patch:
$ git show c2766e7259b86b32bcecd2d61607eb022fd31310 commit c2766e7259b86b32bcecd2d61607eb022fd31310 Author: Matthias Klumpp matthias@tenstral.net Date: Sun Aug 19 20:50:32 2018 +0200
Only suggest, not recommend, an MTAdiff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index 1bd9c3e..e6a6766 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -25,12 +25,11 @@ Depends: adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-11) -Recommends:
- exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent
Suggests: anacron (>=2.0-1), logrotate,
- checksecurity
- checksecurity,
- exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent
Breaks: dpkg (<< 1.15.4) Provides: cron-daemon
In between times the packaging in Debian has been changed on this part.
$ git show f27b9ccdb2046fe3fbb1eef6d7801d4b3d6900c7 commit f27b9ccdb2046fe3fbb1eef6d7801d4b3d6900c7 Author: Christian Kastner ckk@debian.org Date: Tue Feb 19 21:46:16 2019 +0100
Switch cron MTA Recommends to default-mta | mail-transport-agent Recommend these virtual packages rather than specific MTAs.diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index fc59f49..609e84f 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-10), libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-11) Recommends:
- exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent
- default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Suggests: anacron (>= 2.0-1), logrotate,
Is this change worth to update the current cron package in byzantium or could the derived package instead get dropped?
(It's not completely clear to me why the mta part was moved to Suggests.)