Hi, please don't remove the subject when you reply...
On 06/24/2014 14:20, Alexandre Detiste wrote: >> I think it provides similar features as "anacron". > Not at all for the moment. > > systemd-cron needs systemd > 212 to use "persistent timers" in order to > emulate anacron? > and sid is stuck at 204. Fine, then it should not Provide: anacron until a newer systemd version is available in unstable (and systemd-cron depends on it). > indeed /etc/crontab & /etc/cron.d are currently not supported, > but are also less used ; maybe packages using custom cron jobs should also > provide custom > systemd units & timers in the future; but I guess it won't happen in Jessie. "Less used" is not a good reason to ignore policy requirements. > We could maybe use this: > https://github.com/kstep/systemd-crontab-generator > >> should not have Provides: cron-daemon > That would make this package un-installable, because regular cron would > be almost mandatory (of fcron, or bcron-run) & the two conflicts. Umm, there is a Breaks: which is wrong (cf. #751589). > Still it's nice in some case to have a lean system without cron, anacron , > inetd, atd... Which is perfectly possible without having systemd-cron provide cron-daemon. I don't have a cron daemon installed on my desktop system... Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org