Anacron/Cron needed by default anymore?

[Bryan Quigley]

Hi all,

Systemd timers seem like a fine replacement[1] for cron/anacron and is
installed by default.  Further, many of our default services have switched
to them.

Based on the recent change [2] in Debian, I don't believe anacron is needed
anymore.  I'm curious if anyone sees a specific need for cron to be there
as well.

Based on a disco desktop current jobs:
apport - clean all crash reports which are older than a week.
apt-compat - says to prefer the systemd timers
bsdmainutils - BSD mainutils calendar daily maintenance script
cracklib-runtime - make a wordlist for stronger password checking
dpkg - Backup the 7 last versions of dpkg databases containing user data.
logrotate - skips if systemd is installed
man-db - skips if systemd is installed
mlocate - regenerates locate database
passwd - backups passwd group shadow gshadow
popularity-contest - sends package info
ubuntu-advantage-tools - runs status and stores in a cache
update-notifier-common - Try to rerun any package data downloads that
failed at package install time.

Happy to start tackling those that are left if there is agreement to move
to systemd timers / drop anacron/cron.

Thanks!
Bryan

[1] Best overview IMHO https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers
[2]
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/meta-gnome3/commit/7765c0ede92f1487819dd3407c48605a5fe1aa5d
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