Re: Replacing cron

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Sunday 06 October 2002 12:19, Sjoerd wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently tried to make a package of dcron to replace cron:
>
> Package: dcron
> Architecture: any
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> Recommends: exim | smail | sendmail | mail-transport-agent
> Conflicts: cron
> Provides: cron
> Replaces: cron
> ...
>
> However, this doesn't really work with logrotate for example, which depends
> on cron (>= 3.0pl1-53). I tried:
>
> ...
> Provides: cron 4.0.0
> ...
>
> Because I thought it was the version number why it didn't work. How do I
> solve this? Is there a need for a virtual package cron?
>
> Sjoerd

Provides can not provide a version (currently, may change some day).  You can 
ask for people to depend on cron | dcron.  Although the question is now, why 
a new cron??