Bug#1089172: popularity-contest: migrate cron job to systemd timer on Linux ports

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.77
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: martin-eric.racine@iki.fi

popularity-contest still Recommends cron|cron-daemon on Linux ports. It would be desirable to migrate the cron job to a systemd timer on Linux ports. The cron job remains desirable on the Hurd port, however, since that port has no systemd unit support.

Martin-Éric

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-28-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fi:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.87
ii  dpkg                   1.22.11

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
pn  cron | cron-daemon                 <none>
ii  gpg                                2.2.45-2
ii  nullmailer [mail-transport-agent]  1:2.2+10~g7ed88a0-6

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
pn  anacron   <none>
pn  tor       <none>
pn  torsocks  <none>

-- debconf information:
* popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true