Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: j...@joshtriplett.org

Please consider upgrading the lintian tag
missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script to a warning.

This would help encourage packages to add such timers, which long-term
may allow cron to become optional, at least on systemd systems.

Note that doing so does not introduce any new dependencies on systemd:
packages adding systemd timers in parallel with cron scripts need not
depend on systemd, even if the periodic job is non-optional. (And since
cron scripts are in any case system configuration in /etc, packages
already need to be prepared for a sysadmin to disable or edit such
scripts.) In some cases, packages may need to downgrade dependencies on
cron or add alternatives.

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