Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> writes: > 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.
perhaps because lintian issues this tag - https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script?affected=yes if you don't >> 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 maybe its priority should be demoted to standard, rather than dropping it entirely? > to come up with some analysis of what remains to be done and what is > going to break if that were to be implemented. One issue with systemd timer units is that it is surprisingly difficult to reliably send email from them (see eg https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1105792)
