On Wed, 08 Jan 2020, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > This strikes me as clutter that will never be removed from debconf, so > > let's not decide to do that for every package that might need a timer. > > Why should this question ever been removed? What is your goal? Getting rid of > cron-jobs? The question is not yet added. We should ask ourselves if it's actually useful before adding it. Is the feature important enough to ask 50+ translators translate a question on whether the user prefers to use cron or systemd to run some periodic checks? My answer is no. Yours is apparently yes. > > How about modifying the shipped /etc/default/spamassassin to include a > > comment explaining what's going on, and how to enable the timer instead? > > > > Anyone who's set CRON=1 will then get warned about the maintainer's > > modified version, which should catch their attention. Everyone else > > will get a handy hint about the new setup if they ever go to set CRON=1 > > in future. > > And what s the benefit of this change: Getting rid of cron? He explained the benefits. Informing users who care enough to look into the relevant configuration files and/or those who modified the said files, without annoying everybody else with a question that they don't care about. > The very simple thing is: CRON=1 enables a cron job. It does *not* say: "Please > enable something different as long as it achieves the same." There is nothing > wrong with the cron job and it works perfectly fine. So I don't want to have it > replaced by something less transparent. This is the third time that you are saying this in this thread. Please let others disagree with you without repeating yourself. FWIW, I agree with other that CRON=1 really means that the use desires to have the periodic check running. I also agree that a debconf prompt is overkill for this choice. Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ The Debian Handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Debian Long Term Support: https://deb.li/LTS
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