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and subject line Re: Bug#932995: Weird having the "daily" preferences clean
timer run hourly
has caused the Debian Bug report #932995,
regarding Weird having the "daily" preferences clean timer run hourly
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Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.1.30
Severity: minor
File: /lib/systemd/system/apt-listbugs.timer
I noticed in my logs that systemd is running "Daily apt-listbugs
preferences cleanup" once per hour, which of course looks like a bug.
It seems like what is actually happening is the timer fires hourly and
then the script that is ultimately run has some logic to check if its
been a day or not. I imagine this is for cron compatability (I guess on
systems without anacron?)...
systemd timers can just do all that, though, with the Persistent=
option. That'd have a couple advantages, like being easier for the admin
to understand, easier to customize (e.g., maybe 7am isn't a good time),
and I suppose probably save a barely measurable amount of electricity.
Anyway, I'm filing this as minor, but feel free to downgrade to
wishlist. Though I suggest striking the word "daily" in the timer
Description= if you do.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200,
'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (150, 'stable-debug'), (150, 'stable'),
(100, 'experimental-debug'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND,
TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on:
ii apt 1.8.2
ii ruby 1:2.5.1
ii ruby-debian 0.3.9+b8
ii ruby-gettext 3.2.9-1
ii ruby-soap4r 2.0.5-4
ii ruby-unicode 0.4.4-2+b9
ii ruby-xmlparser 0.7.3-3+b2
Versions of packages apt-listbugs recommends:
ii ruby-httpclient 2.8.3-2
ii s6 2.7.2.2-3
Versions of packages apt-listbugs suggests:
ii chromium [www-browser] 76.0.3809.62-1
ii elinks [www-browser] 0.13~20190125-3
ii firefox [www-browser] 68.0.1-2
ii google-chrome-stable [www-browser] 75.0.3770.142-1
ii konqueror [www-browser] 4:18.12.0-1
ii links2 [www-browser] 2.19-2
ii lynx [www-browser] 2.9.0dev.1-2
ii reportbug 7.5.2
ii sensible-utils 0.0.12
ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.3-37
ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-1
-- no debconf information
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On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:28:57 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:11:36 -0400 Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
[...]
> > I've cut it
> > below, because it requires some thought & experimentation
[...]
> > — so quickly responding to only the
> > easy part for now. Anyway, the easy part:
[...]
> > I'd suggest just strike the word "Daily". Just use "apt-listbugs
> > preferences cleanup" (or put something like "Scheduled" or "Routine" in
> > front if you want to avoid starting with a lowercase letter.
>
> This is funny, because I thought that the word "daily" could be useful
> *exactly* to inform/reassure the user that the cleanup is actually
> performed (at most) once a day, appearances aside.
>
> But maybe it turns out to be a bit confusing, I don't know...
Some more thought was needed quite some time ago, but no conclusion has
been drawn.
I am hereby closing the bug report: if anyone has a good suggestion to
improve the clarity of the service description, without compromising
its correctness, please don't hesitate to reopen the bug.
Bye.
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