On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 02:16:13PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Simon McVittie wrote: > > > In a more opinionated distribution the solution would have been "require > > systemd, rely on systemd timers, delete cron jobs, move on", but Debian > > still supports non-systemd init as a non-default installation, and > > anacron/cron don't have a built-in way to skip particular cron jobs other > > than open-coding it in the cron job itself. > In the long run that's maybe something we want though. I've opened a bug > (#922862) against lintian to emit an (experimental) tag for packages that > are providing a cronjob but not a .timer to keep track of this.
Shouldn't that be the other way around? Having .timer but not a cronjob is a nasty bug, having a cronjob but not .timer is fine (at least unless you have no cron implementation at all). Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Have you accepted Khorne as your lord and saviour? ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
