Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-10-10 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Marc, it took me a while to get into gears again... I just pushed a branch ckk/sf3 that contains my "release candidate" for src:cron converted to source format 3.0 (quilt). The unpacked source is identical to the 1.0 unpacked source, and unapplying all patches results in a source identical to

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-08-07 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi Mark, Thanks for notifying me of this discussion at https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron/issues/47 I have been trough some issues recently (apt-cacher-ng that spew errors after the release) and I had to dig trough the cron-daily unit journal to locate the problem and I untersand this i

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-08-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 19:13:15 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >On Sun, 07 Jul 2019 at 17:00:53 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> And on the third side, we have systemd timers, which are not suited as >> a complete replacement. There is code to transform crontab entries into >> systemd timer units, but funct

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-07-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 07 Jul 2019 at 17:00:53 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > And on the third side, we have systemd timers, which are not suited as > a complete replacement. There is code to transform crontab entries into > systemd timer units, but functionality that cron delivers, such as > in-sequence execution of

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-07-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 20:55:41 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: >On 09.07.19 09:32, Marc Haber wrote: >> It is good to know where things are going. Would you mind if I created >> a wiki page with this road map laid out about where Debian's cron >> world is going? > >Not at all, on the contrary -- tha

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-07-16 Thread Christian Kastner
On 09.07.19 09:32, Marc Haber wrote: > It is good to know where things are going. Would you mind if I created > a wiki page with this road map laid out about where Debian's cron > world is going? Not at all, on the contrary -- thanks for the offer! > That would, though, only make sense if you cou

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-07-09 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 19:18:17 +0200, Christian Kastner wrote: >one of the cron maintainers here, and also the cronie maintainer. thanks for the swift answer. >> What is the issue that keeps cronie out of unstable? If it just a matter >> of personpower, or are there technical reasons? If it's

Re: Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-07-07 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi, one of the cron maintainers here, and also the cronie maintainer. On 07.07.19 17:00, Marc Haber wrote: > On the other hand, there is cronie, which is used in the Red Hat world > for years, is a well-tested code base, maintained upstream (in a rather > slow pace), but only has an eight years o

Cron, anacron, cronie, systemd-timers

2019-07-07 Thread Marc Haber
[This goes to -devel, the cron and cronie maintainers and the participants of the discussion in #897138 ("O: anacron"). If there is a better forum to discuss this, please point me in the direction] Hi, with buster being freshly out of the door, it is the time to take technical decisions. I would