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Bug#975047: devscripts: Please consider demoting 'at' from Recommends to Suggests

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On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:02:56PM +0100, Paride Legovini wrote:
> 
> devscript currently Recommends 'at', which therefore gets installed by
> default. I think 'at' should be a Suggests. The rationale is that 'at'
> is not popular enough to justify the following:

According to the README, `at` is used by `pts-subscribe`, which I agree
is not really used by many nowadays.  So to Suggests it goes.

>  - The basic function of 'at' can be achieved by using tools installed
>    in Debian by default (namely `systemd-run --on-calendar`).

at also ships `atq` which is not easily replacable by anything :P

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Bug#975047: devscripts: Please consider demoting 'at' from Recommends to Suggests Paride Legovini <paride@debian.org> - 2020-11-18 12:10 +0100
  Bug#975047: devscripts: Please consider demoting 'at' from Recommends to Suggests Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2020-11-18 12:30 +0100

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