You are right, systemd shoud remain optional. The right options should be - add a dependancy on upstart OR sysvinit-core OR systemd-sysv >= 229 (as you said this would cause people using systemd to use the backported version) - do not use systemd timer on jessie-backport and use cron
A third option can be remove the random delay from certbot.timer and add it to the certbot.service "ExecStart" property, but I can't help as I'm not familiar with systemd syntax Sincerely Lorenzo Cameroni 2016-11-09 16:50 GMT+01:00 Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>: > Hi, > > Lorenzo Felice Cameroni wrote: >> - add a versioned dependency on certbot to systemd >= 229 > > Please do _not_ do that. There are enough people who do not want > systemd on a server. And pulling in a backport of an init system just > for getting SSL certificates sounds very disproportionate. > >> - do not use systemd timer on jessie-backport and use cron > > Well, certbot works fine on Sid without systemd either, so there > should not be much to do to get that. At least /etc/cron.d/certbot > exists. > > It probably suffices to not install /lib/systemd/system/certbot.timer > and to remove the "is systemd running" check from /etc/cron.d/certbot. > > Regards, Axel > -- > ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ > : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin > `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 > `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
