Ubuntu
systemd-cron package

Installing systemd-cron removes ubuntu-standard

Bug #1744457 reported by Mathias Hermansson
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
systemd-cron (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned
ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
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Bug Description

Installing systemd-cron removes ubuntu-standard, which has a dependency to cron.

# apt show systemd-cron
Package: systemd-cron
Version: 1.5.12-1
[...]
Provides: anacron, cron-daemon
[...]
Conflicts: anacron, cron-daemon
Replaces: anacron, cron
[...]

# apt show ubuntu-standard
Package: ubuntu-standard
Version: 1.407
[...]
Depends: busybox-static, cpio, cron, dmidecode, dnsutils, dosfstools, ed, file, ftp, hdparm, info, iptables, language-selector-common, libpam-systemd, logrotate, lshw, lsof, ltrace, man-db, mime-support, parted, pciutils, popularity-contest, psmisc, rsync, strace, time, usbutils, wget
[...]

Is there a reason to why cron is not in the Provides field?

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in systemd-cron (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Gabriel de Perthuis (g2p) wrote :

ubuntu-standard should depend on cron-daemon (a virtual package provided by cron, bcron, systemd-cron), instead of depending on cron directly.

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Gabriel de Perthuis (g2p) wrote :

Alternatively, systemd-cron could add a Provides: cron, which is what bcron does.

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Alexandre Detiste (alexandre-detiste) wrote : Re: [Bug 1744457] Re: Installing systemd-cron removes ubuntu-standard

Reason: the Debian policy

Le ven. 18 oct. 2019 18:51, Gabriel de Perthuis <email address hidden>
a écrit :

> Alternatively, systemd-cron could add a Provides: cron, which is what
> bcron does.
>
>

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