On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 05:29:58PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Chris Hofstädtler <z...@debian.org> (2025-07-02): > > in a discussion today on IRC #debian-devel, it was mentioned that > > cron is "important". However during the trixie development cycle, > > many more packages started installing systemd timer units. > > On a default install, I would therefore argue that cron is no longer > > very important. > > Without any particular hat: I would expect someone wanting to drop cron > to come up with some analysis of what remains to be done and what is > going to break if that were to be implemented.
I pondered that, but packages have to depend on cron anyway if they want it. cron is not Essential: yes. > Also, at this stage of the release cycle, really? Seemed like reconsidering the cron prio was forgotten, but from my PoV it doesn't matter if it happens for trixie or forky. > Cc-ing debian-devel@ so that this gets discussed there. Thanks. Chris
