Package: apt-listbugs
Version: 0.1.30
Severity: minor
File: /lib/systemd/system/apt-listbugs.timer

I noticed in my logs that systemd is running "Daily apt-listbugs
preferences cleanup" once per hour, which of course looks like a bug.

It seems like what is actually happening is the timer fires hourly and
then the script that is ultimately run has some logic to check if its
been a day or not. I imagine this is for cron compatability (I guess on
systems without anacron?)...

systemd timers can just do all that, though, with the Persistent=
option. That'd have a couple advantages, like being easier for the admin
to understand, easier to customize (e.g., maybe 7am isn't a good time),
and I suppose probably save a barely measurable amount of electricity.

Anyway, I'm filing this as minor, but feel free to downgrade to
wishlist. Though I suggest striking the word "daily" in the timer
Description= if you do.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 
'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (150, 'stable-debug'), (150, 'stable'), 
(100, 'experimental-debug'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, 
TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=en_US:en_GB (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages apt-listbugs depends on:
ii  apt             1.8.2
ii  ruby            1:2.5.1
ii  ruby-debian     0.3.9+b8
ii  ruby-gettext    3.2.9-1
ii  ruby-soap4r     2.0.5-4
ii  ruby-unicode    0.4.4-2+b9
ii  ruby-xmlparser  0.7.3-3+b2

Versions of packages apt-listbugs recommends:
ii  ruby-httpclient  2.8.3-2
ii  s6               2.7.2.2-3

Versions of packages apt-listbugs suggests:
ii  chromium [www-browser]              76.0.3809.62-1
ii  elinks [www-browser]                0.13~20190125-3
ii  firefox [www-browser]               68.0.1-2
ii  google-chrome-stable [www-browser]  75.0.3770.142-1
ii  konqueror [www-browser]             4:18.12.0-1
ii  links2 [www-browser]                2.19-2
ii  lynx [www-browser]                  2.9.0dev.1-2
ii  reportbug                           7.5.2
ii  sensible-utils                      0.0.12
ii  w3m [www-browser]                   0.5.3-37
ii  xdg-utils                           1.1.3-1

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