On Ma, 04 mai 21, 19:50:27, Mart van de Wege wrote: > David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > On Tue 04 May 2021 at 17:06:50 (+0200), Mart van de Wege wrote: > >> > >> Surely packaging a system timer file like that should not be done? It > >> should be at the discretion of the admin to create one if they want to > >> run btrbk on a schedule. > > > > I think this has been discussed in the past, and that installing a > > package is generally seen as meaning that you want it to run: Debian > > therefore tries to supply a reasonable and secure configuration. > > > But that's not applicable in this case. btrbk can be run standalone or > from a cronjob/timer, but the exact time someone wants to run their > backups, or even if they want them run periodically at all, is not a > decision you can make for them. > > Of course an argument can be made that without edits to the default > btrbk.conf file btrbk won't run anyway, so configuring the timer is part > of configuring your backup strategy. I still think that supplying a > system timer is wrong here.
Feel free to contact the Maintainer about it. In any case, it probably makes sense to at least mention this in NEWS.Debian, especially if the package previously shipped a cron job. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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