Re: Bug#1108665: override: cron:admin/optional
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes:
> Chris Hofstädtler <zeha@debian.org> (2025-07-02):
>> in a discussion today on IRC #debian-devel, it was mentioned that
>> cron is "important". However during the trixie development cycle,
>> many more packages started installing systemd timer units.
perhaps because lintian issues this tag -
https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script?affected=yes
if you don't
>> On a default install, I would therefore argue that cron is no longer
>> very important.
>
> Without any particular hat: I would expect someone wanting to drop
> cron
maybe its priority should be demoted to standard, rather than dropping it
entirely?
> to come up with some analysis of what remains to be done and what is
> going to break if that were to be implemented.
One issue with systemd timer units is that it is surprisingly
difficult to reliably send email from them (see eg
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1105792)
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