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

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Martin-Éric Racine]
> 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.

What is the feature of a systemd timer that popularity-contest would
gain from, and how will its advantage compencate for the need to
maintain two different cron job mechanisms?

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen