Bug#752376: systemd-cron: does not meet requirements for cron-daemon

[Ansgar Burchardt]

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