[PureOS] Dropping derived cron package?

[Carsten Schoenert]

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 at tenstral.net>
> Date:   Sun Aug 19 20:50:32 2018 +0200
> 
>     Only suggest, not recommend, an MTA
> 
> diff --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 at 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.)

-- 
Regards
Carsten Schoenert
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