[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Bug#827373: mailman should use cron.{daily, weekly, monthly}, not cron.d

[Ian Jackson]

Package: mailman
Version: 1:2.1.18-2

In (at least some) previous versions of the Debian mailman package,
the regular tasks were done by dropping files into /etc/cron.monthly/
and so on.

Now, this is done by creating a file /etc/cron.d/mailman.

Using cron.{monthly,weekly,daily} has the following advantages:

 * The timing of regular cron jobs can be adjusted once by the system
   administrator by adjusting the timing of the run-parts invocations.

 * Regular cron jobs are (generally) scheduled sequentially with
   other cron jobs, avoiding multiple cron jobs at once (which can be
   confusing and perhaps even cause lossage)

 * There is less of a problem with conffile edit conflicts, as there
   isn't a single schedule file (cron.d/mailman) which is constantly
   edited and updated.

Please can you switch this back the way it was ?

Also, please can you, for at least one release, ship a dummy file for
cron.d/mailman (with a comment explaining where the contents have
gone).  If you simply delete this conffile, the conffile processing
will retain it, resulting in all the cron jobs running twice.

Thanks,
Ian.

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