Joey Hess wrote:
>Policy says:
>
> 3.5. Cron jobs
> --------------
>
> Packages may not touch the configuration file `/etc/crontab', nor may
> they modify the files in `/var/spool/cron/crontabs'.
>
>And it goes on to say, use /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}.
I had not noticed this; I created a crontab fragment in <package>/debian
for my package postgresql. I use build to generate the binary packages.
Build produced this in tmp/DEBIAN/postinst:
# etc file modification generated by debmake Wed, 3 Dec 1997 00:19:27 +0000
if ! grep -q '#-- postgresql begin' /etc/crontab; then
cat >>/etc/crontab <<EOF
#-- postgresql begin
0 4 * * * postgres /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance
#-- postgresql end
EOF
fi
So if the policy is as stated, it is being violated by the package building
tools.
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