I intend to orphan the anacron package.

The package description is:
 Anacron (like "anac(h)ronistic") is a periodic command scheduler.  It
 executes commands at intervals specified in days.  Unlike cron, it
 does not assume that the system is running continuously.  It can
 therefore be used to control the execution of daily, weekly, and
 monthly jobs (or anything with a period of n days), on systems that
 don't run 24 hours a day.  When installed and configured properly,
 Anacron will make sure that the commands are run at the specified
 intervals as closely as machine uptime permits.
 .
 This package is pre-configured to execute the daily jobs of the
 Debian system.  You should install this program if your system isn't
 powered on 24 hours a day to make sure the maintenance jobs of other
 Debian packages are executed each day.

The package is no longer maintained upstream, and it doesn't interact well
with systemd.  It might need a complete rethink or replacement.

(The co-maintainer has never been active, but they are welcome to take
over the package like everyone else.)

Hello Peter,

Oh dear :(

Could you expand/provide some bug numbers, please?  What exactly can go
wrong?

On Fri, 4 May 2018 16:55:07 -0700 Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:

Would switching to cronie [0] (which also provides an anacron
implementation [1]) be an option?

In contrast to cron and anacron, cronie seems to be actively maintained
upstream.

Regards,
Michael

[0] https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/releases
[1] https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/tree/master/anacron

I think most of the "important" bugs are related to this and similar issues.

Hi Lance,

Your first attempt at this was removed because of a QA upload with the same version.
That automation on mentors is sometimes not very intelligent.

Do you want to pursue becoming the anacron maintainer? If not please reset this to orphan.

Thanks,
Bastian

Hello Bastian,

Yes, I'm working on fixing a bug (typos) that a translator identified. Once I finish this up, hopefully tomorrow, I will upload to mentors. I will continue to work off the other bugs after that.

I got involved with the cron/anacron/cronie community and it would be nice to continue working on it until we migrate to cronie.

Thank you,

Lance Lin <lqi254@protonmail.com>
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We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
anacron, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 897138@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Lance Lin <LQi254@protonmail.com> (supplier of updated anacron package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 19:00:22 +0700
Source: anacron
Architecture: source
Version: 2.3-33
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Lance Lin <LQi254@protonmail.com>
Changed-By: Lance Lin <LQi254@protonmail.com>
Closes: 897138 993348
Changes:
 anacron (2.3-33) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * d/anacron.postrm: Add cleanup for dangling symlinks (Closes: #993348)
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