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

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> 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?

[Martin-Éric Racine]
> https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007257
>
> Ideally, popularity-contest would ship both a cron job and a systemd
> timer, drop the recommends on cron|cron-daemon and presume that the
> host comes with some task scheduler that can leverage either one.

Thank you for the pointers.  As far as I can see, any advantages for
popularity-contest are not mentioned in either of these.  The overhead
of maintaining both a cron job and a systemd timer would on the other
hand be very noticable.  Did I misunderstand something?

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen