[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? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen
