Am 14.03.22 um 20:43 schrieb Josh Triplett:
Michael Biebl wrote:I'd agree here. user crontabs are such a niche case where systemd's own facilities don't provide a direct replacement. That said, my main point was about packages shipping cron files. As a distro we'd benefit if those shipped native systemd timers (instead or in addition). I don't think we have any packages in the archive that make direct use of user crontabs? If all packages shipped native systemd timers I could envision that at some point it would make sense to stop installing cron by default and users that need or want user crontab can just run apt install cron.Perhaps a first step would be to promote lintian's `missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script` (https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script) from "pedantic" to "warning"? If that were fixed for the majority of packages, `cron` could then become priority optional, with a release note suggesting to install it to support user crontabs.
Probably a good idea, yeah.
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