[Bug 1011708] Re: Logrotate package incorrectly requires anacron as a dependency

[James Page]

Hi Eric

Thanks for the bug report.

However I don't think that this is actually a bug - anacron is an
alternative dependency for this package:

   cron | anacron | fcron

logrotate does require *SOME* sort of cron system to operate effectively
- so long as you have one of the alternatives installed you should not
have a problem.

Paolo - thanks for the debdiff but I really don't think this is a change
we should be making.



** Changed in: logrotate (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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Title:
  Logrotate package incorrectly requires anacron as a dependency

Status in “logrotate” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Under Ubuntu 12.04, when I attempted to remove the anacron package, it
  incorrectly identified logrotate as a dependency of this package.

  There is no way that logrotate "requires" anacron to operate.
  Logrotate is a standalone package that can be exectued from crontab,
  anacrontab or the command line, for that matter. It does not "require"
  any of these so, please remove the dependency from the logrotate
  package on anacron.

  Having anacron as a requirement for logrotate makes it impossible to
  remove anacron (which on a server, for example, is an annoying package
  that is more trouble than it is worth), without removing logrotate too
  (which is a very useful package that one wishes to keep).

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