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  • Re: Bug#1108665: override: cron:admin/optional

    From Antoine Le Gonidec@1:229/2 to All on Thu Jul 3 23:30:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.devel
    From: [email protected]

    Le Thu, 03 Jul 2025 22:17:44 +0100,
    Richard Lewis <[email protected]> a écrit :

    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?

    I assume "to drop" here is meaning to drop from the "Priority: important" base packages set, to reduce the size of some setups.

    Dropping cron from the Debian archive would cause a lot of problems, but I don’t think this is what is discussed here.

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  • From Chris Hofstaedtler@1:229/2 to All on Thu Jul 3 23:50:01 2025
    XPost: linux.debian.devel
    From: [email protected]

    * Richard Lewis <[email protected]> [250703 23:18]:
    Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> writes:
    Chris Hofstädtler <[email protected]> (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

    maybe its priority should be demoted to standard, rather than dropping it >entirely?

    Nobody asked for removal from the archive. Please read the message
    Subject: and actually the quoted context.

    The point was lowering the Priority: from important to optional.

    Chris

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