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source: cron (main)
version: 3.0pl1-139
maintainer: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña (DMD)
uploaders: Georges Khaznadar [DMD]
arch: any
std-ver: 4.6.0
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

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o-o-stable: 3.0pl1-128+deb9u1
o-o-sec: 3.0pl1-128+deb9u2
oldstable: 3.0pl1-134+deb10u1
stable: 3.0pl1-137
testing: 3.0pl1-139
unstable: 3.0pl1-139
exp: 3.0pl1-140

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3.0pl1-134+deb10u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
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cron (91 bugs: 0, 24, 67, 0)

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 4.1 high

A new upstream version 4.1 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2020-06-29 Last update: 2022-05-28 02:36

lintian reports 3 warnings high

Lintian reports 3 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2021-04-11 Last update: 2021-10-13 21:31

16 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 16 bugs (18 if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2021-08-14 Last update: 2022-05-28 07:00

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 3.0pl1-141, distribution experimental) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit a061464be7d9df50eb9a3a6dbe2bce469b2f18ab
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 27 11:03:59 2022 +0200

    added the restriction 'breaks-testbed'

commit 3a632b3ad65aceec66d82b739abecc97298f53b2
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 26 20:01:37 2022 +0200

    added set -e at the begin of shell tests

commit a84a0a455b0f4fb892a9b08f07722389629055d1
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 26 19:53:34 2022 +0200

    taken in account the environment variable MAILFROM again

commit 5a3d09cb642beffa2190f9d1d885ed3c2fcb74e6
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 22 21:22:54 2022 +0200

    fixed the test

commit ee205346edd4f81280beed5fe60fec107557ea1d
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 22 21:08:27 2022 +0200

    new test to check headers added in new crontabs

commit 9340494f9cef13e6e59f5f0141c4a4b54c5e2b70
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 22 14:12:37 2022 +0200

    removed a useless patch, and refreshed most of the other patches

commit 191223fedff1b78d29b16f62fc0be06558c4bddd
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 22 12:57:50 2022 +0200

    added a dummy test to check whether autopkgtest is compatible with 'sleep'

commit b5f3adfda578953c2a0c52ba4ced082f4debe9b4
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 20:03:41 2022 +0200

    ensure rsyslog package is installed and configured

commit d1df3d15665d6f9f2e3ef5224206bb584996e30d
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 19:55:51 2022 +0200

    made the test yet a bit more verbose

commit c8a79c74bd131a555eb4d2babae2f4d003a4b4ee
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 19:46:13 2022 +0200

    fixed invkations of systemctl

commit df15108de456d91a4841cd7c712e2ccf7f57201b
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 19:43:25 2022 +0200

    added more verbosity

commit d3a10433ab027244b78f30fdbebf5bcfd23b0e9a
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 19:25:14 2022 +0200

    ensure rsyslog is running

commit ee96bb42b4a8e16e509fd402a1d845721801f82f
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 19:09:59 2022 +0200

    added the dependency on rsyslog

commit d22a290d5bfa2862b7890550dcd16be4cf0b82a9
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 18:55:06 2022 +0200

    added a test about MAILTO validation

commit bb584f826f97a48497c1b0dc7853d77e539c2724
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 16:11:45 2022 +0200

    fixed a typo

commit 4d6021511b5bdfafff3849823f0c4563ad1d6243
Merge: fc39f0f 7d29f3a
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 15:59:52 2022 +0200

    Merge branch 'daemon-common'

commit 7d29f3a1bdd31f39d286554b9cc0075a469ec441
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 15:59:28 2022 +0200

    declared the tests in debian/changelog

commit 71672417a0a1d644e66b15ad7943188523650e6e
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 15:58:39 2022 +0200

    removed processes listing directories' contents, as the differences are checked consistently now

commit ae8189746523fe11a607ed2849e2f1ff5c5987ef
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 15:48:53 2022 +0200

    allow the directory $destdir to pre-exist

commit 0e06aa8a2a21e2df1b073e8be755cc07bea481b9
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 15:27:32 2022 +0200

    beautified the test's filename

commit b70118ddb08cf3070b4d47ec965384113b7921c4
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 15:25:12 2022 +0200

    modified the way closing brackets are changed

commit 1ed7273812bb08bcc9de6746f6b5330103c49380
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 15:13:14 2022 +0200

    do not let apt-get write to stderr

commit 513e3f5105ebc3066368ab1fba0789a6221f35c8
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 15:05:55 2022 +0200

    exclude less directories

commit e6578dbc14d7ef1153cb54f8c48398d3ed0ace07
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 15:03:49 2022 +0200

    ignore parentheses replaced by brackets and modified spaces

commit c89d7a84156b2b76b91a52964c5c8e0477646a65
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 14:53:54 2022 +0200

    do not let "apt update" write warnings to stderr

commit 0f23e34ecf3d88d8a5e03cb4a3e1ea8b840b39b1
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 14:41:49 2022 +0200

    let the function unfoldPackage echo a better message

commit 9639eee199e63e214e5717469d749027b046c1ab
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 14:40:26 2022 +0200

    fixed syntax errors in the shell function unfoldPackage

commit cc0451774788c39d72bc4dfef80de240b79d98f2
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 14:35:05 2022 +0200

    introduced a shell function unfoldPackage

commit 98da79c8a0ecbd30768abec4eccca779a29727bb
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 14:20:34 2022 +0200

    separate the diff process for etc/crontab

commit f1595f35bffaffec003f4766747a345f01be2c69
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 14:16:37 2022 +0200

    exclude also default and crontab

commit 696f25e45d73e5555d9133a18392b37f28ead040
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 14:01:01 2022 +0200

    using cp -a instead of rsync -av

commit c9238cd932fa9496b33728b0fd9d68965055c0de
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 13:52:06 2022 +0200

    fixed a typo & excluded init.d, pam.d

commit bbc8a3ebe98e568d25ac9869ac151661655a389d
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 13:26:08 2022 +0200

    reorganized the test

commit 6680260581c69b4d2e6722605e16fae9c46d30ba
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 11:26:20 2022 +0200

    fixed a mistake in directory creation

commit 706adb53c3d1ccbfa0aa978e87ff0972c1193eea
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 10:51:23 2022 +0200

    fixed a typo T => TMP

commit b16580d437abd5e4207decf8274462bb914eb54d
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 10:40:36 2022 +0200

    actually compares the different packages

commit c36b676f2bbc46c17b10a624d6bd4dae95168358
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 10:27:29 2022 +0200

    included bullseye in /etc/apt/sources.list.d

commit 144167009903c5fa7af363e571aa9028ba6bf1a6
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 10:19:57 2022 +0200

    added binutils as a dependency, to get /usr/bin/ar

commit 49bdee800233fcfeb02d6fe29f54fdabe57b3a76
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Fri May 20 10:11:02 2022 +0200

    given the right release number for cron, which is currently in unstable

commit d610a53448970cb4feca7099c0073873c3b4853e
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 20:06:29 2022 +0200

    taken care of the write access

commit d1c1818c43ca30b99e7ccc8333b237b50e97c8e8
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 19:54:03 2022 +0200

    no need for sudo as we are root!

commit 8b49147858a83e9b3b027faaf74ad215683108b7
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 19:46:00 2022 +0200

    fixed the tests

commit 2d5561847ca155cc2f60ebe9decbd9c9d954ce19
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 19:32:57 2022 +0200

    tests for Autopkgtest

commit 8789d9e295828b6750e5edf9eb14ebaa82a87810
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 19:06:41 2022 +0200

    modified the target name to have cron-daemon-common's placeholders and crontab correctly installed

commit 86b2c755e9d34ff76a85fab5e9d0f1346112f99f
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 16:55:26 2022 +0200

    rewritten rules so install-indep differs from install-arch

commit cad6d40931ddc54ebe109cd3bca4eb83757e6bee
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 16:25:00 2022 +0200

    fixed the indentation

commit fc39f0fb35163aa70dc8f3a9cc054617f3d9ddd8
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 16:16:37 2022 +0200

    inactivated the CI for master branch

commit 2e0b876c4b34886f3586645827423d9a4d4e4bef
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 16:15:22 2022 +0200

    disabled reprotest

commit 04b0024af584f3f9ae88d52af5c584997b6ced73
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 15:28:20 2022 +0200

    modified the include

commit c181f39a646e2c6c0558ec93ff9e3fe6ee65353d
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 15:28:20 2022 +0200

    modified the include

commit 721eb8fd4f932932abef6454bbbf82bf36e60efd
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 15:11:51 2022 +0200

    added a minimal CI file for Salsa

commit 6d119d9601aac9073cd8c727691a2be140449a2b
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Thu May 19 15:11:51 2022 +0200

    added a minimal CI file for Salsa

commit df0e66734bc62362479b75076c1031a5792966a6
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 15 20:40:32 2022 +0200

    fixed the missing newline at the end of the file

commit 6c604c543a62b97d3644dd43eceb6bb3685d34cc
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 15 20:21:47 2022 +0200

    fixed a type

commit 07bb69ed8bad9266acd7eade89992394f160bc73
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 15 20:17:57 2022 +0200

    applied changes suggested by Debian Janitor

commit e29bf637818e749a2fee4269ed0a97c7f76f1693
Merge: 0838720 79244a7
Author: Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org>
Date:   Sun May 15 18:13:46 2022 +0000

    Merge branch 'scrub-obsolete' into 'master'
    
    Remove unnecessary constraints
    
    See merge request debian/cron!4

commit 79244a750fc5c515846d66f77b40c37ebd63f29a
Author: Debian Janitor <janitor@jelmer.uk>
Date:   Tue May 10 01:24:21 2022 +0000

    Remove constraints unnecessary since buster
    
    * cron: Drop versioned constraint on debianutils, libpam-runtime and lsb-base in Depends.
    * cron: Drop versioned constraint on anacron in Suggests.
    
    Changes-By: deb-scrub-obsolete

Created: 2022-05-15 Last update: 2022-05-27 10:05

RFH: The maintainer is looking for help with this package. normal

The current maintainer is looking for someone who can help with the maintenance of this package. If you are interested in this package, please consider helping out. One way you can help is offer to be a co-maintainer or triage bugs in the BTS. Please see bug number #984736 for more information.

Created: 2021-03-07 Last update: 2021-03-07 23:07

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.6.1 instead of 4.6.0).

Created: 2022-05-11 Last update: 2022-05-16 02:37

news

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[2022-05-21] cron 3.0pl1-139 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-05-20] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-140 (source all amd64) into experimental, experimental (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Georges Khaznadar)
[2022-05-15] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-139 (source) into unstable (Georges Khaznadar)
[2022-05-15] cron 3.0pl1-138 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-05-09] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-138 (source) into unstable (Georges Khaznadar)
[2022-03-25] cron 3.0pl1-137.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2022-03-20] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-137.1 (source) into unstable (Georges Khaznadar)
[2021-10-30] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-128+deb9u2 (source) into oldoldstable (Adrian Bunk)
[2021-03-06] cron 3.0pl1-137 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2021-02-22] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-137 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2020-02-16] cron 3.0pl1-136 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2020-02-10] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-136 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2019-10-29] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-134+deb10u1 (source) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Christian Kastner)
[2019-09-20] cron 3.0pl1-135 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-09-15] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-135 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2019-06-26] cron 3.0pl1-134 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-06-23] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-134 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2019-04-07] cron 3.0pl1-133 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-03-21] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-127+deb8u2 (source amd64) into oldstable (Mike Gabriel)
[2019-03-11] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-133 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2019-03-07] cron 3.0pl1-132 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2019-02-24] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-132 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2019-02-20] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-131 (source) into unstable (Christian Kastner)
[2018-03-18] cron 3.0pl1-130 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2018-03-12] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-130 (source i386) into unstable (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña) (signed by: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino)
[2018-03-11] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-129 (source i386) into unstable (Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña) (signed by: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino)
[2017-12-09] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-128+deb9u1 (source amd64) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Laurent Bigonville)
[2017-10-12] cron 3.0pl1-128.1 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2017-10-06] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-128.1 (source amd64) into unstable (Laurent Bigonville)
[2015-06-11] Accepted cron 3.0pl1-127+deb8u1 (source i386) into proposed-updates->stable-new, proposed-updates (Christian Kastner) (signed by: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 88 92
RC: 0
I&N: 25
M&W: 63 67
F&P: 0
patch: 16 18

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