cron (3.0pl1-197) unstable; urgency=medium
* modified d/cron.NEWS to merge two overlapping entries, and make it
easier for people upgrading from bookworm to trixie to understand
the new feature ('cron -N' triggers a cron tick immediately).
Thank you Andrew Bower for the hints! Closes: #1107677
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:30:37 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-196) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fixed a lot of inconsistencies in man pages cron(8), crontab(1) and
crontab(5), many thanks to Helge Kreutzmann's very detailed bug
report. Closes: #1102192
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:47:59 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-195) unstable; urgency=medium
* declared sensible-editor as the command used by `crontab -e` in the
manpage crontab.1; Closes: #1079207
* now all manpages are created by xsltproc from XML source files.
I checked that '[g|n]roff -mandoc -t -ww -b -z -K utf8 cron.8'
report no longer any error. Closes: #1085713
* declared that cron is lauched by systemd. Closes: #1086495
* as the changes suggested by Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> about
bug report #956953 are now reveted, due to the lack of implementation
and test, errors which were reported about the version 3.0pl1-190
in experimental are cleared. Closes: #1071709
* checked that the line "33 22 * * * expr $(date +\%s) ..." is no
longer produced by the source file debian/crontab.5.xml; instead,
% characters are properly escaped in the examples:
$ man -l debian/crontab.5 | grep '\\%'
0 4 8-14 * * test $(date +\%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
0 * * * * [ "$(date +\%R)" = 00:00 ] && run_some_script
0 4 * * Sat [ "$(date +\%e)" = "$(LANG=C ncal ...
So this Closes: #1101921
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:04:09 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-194) unstable; urgency=medium
* upload to unstable
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sat, 01 Mar 2025 09:27:21 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-193) experimental; urgency=medium
* cleared warning and errors for gcc-15 compiler. Closes: #1096482
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:33:32 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-192) unstable; urgency=medium
* reverted changes which would add cron jobs to systemd scope cgroups.
#956953 will not be fixed.
* applied Jing Luo's patch, thanks! this patch fixes the licence
record regarding file debian/examples/crontab2english.pl
Closes: #1095226
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:29:29 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-191) experimental; urgency=medium
* fixed e-mail errors due to inconsistent MAILFROM and MAILTO
addresses
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2024 12:06:08 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-190) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* used searchmode=plain to fix the watch file
* add cron jobs to systemd scope cgroups (Closes: #956953)
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2024 14:13:04 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-189) unstable; urgency=medium
* rewritten the man pages in docbook XML format, so their typography
and layout can be mastered at a higher level: hacking groff sources
can be prone to error (Closes: #1065356)
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:08:34 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-188) unstable; urgency=medium
* trying to fix tests/sanity-checks
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:42:47 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-187) unstable; urgency=medium
* fixed the bug number in debian/tests/sanity-checks
* using check_error() to report errors with MAILTO or MAILFROM
* added support for unquoted empty environment strings. Closes: #773602
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:58:46 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-186) unstable; urgency=medium
* modified the attribution of patch Wrap-long-lines.patch, it was
authored by Frank Heckenbach <f.heckenbach@fh-soft.de>, while
Harald Dunkel reported the bug fixed by Frank Heckenbach's patch
* reorganized the source about function safe_p, so it can be used
in the file crontab.c, and let emit a warning when variables
MAITO or MAILFROM are defined "unsafely". Closes: #1061155
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:27:09 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-185) unstable; urgency=medium
* added bat as Suggests: and modified the manpage crontab.1 to
provide an example of colorization using the command batcat
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:13:00 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-184) unstable; urgency=medium
* created a new file /etc/supercat/spcrc-crontab-light for light
backgrounds, and modified /etc/supercat/spcrc-crontab for dark
backgrounds. Closes: #1061164
* demoted supercat from Recommends: to Suggests:. Closes: #1061196
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2024 12:10:45 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-183) unstable; urgency=medium
* deleted the patch features/Coloring_the_ouput_of_crontab_l.patch,
enhanced the patch docs/more_examples_for_crontab.patch, added
the file spcrc-crontab and recommended the package supercat, to
give an opportunity to colorize the output of `crontab -l`, while
keeping this output accessible. Closes: #1059828
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:51:30 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-182) unstable; urgency=medium
* patched crontab.5 to document the possible use of leading zeroes,
in order to line up columns. Closes: #946382
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 25 Dec 2023 19:13:06 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-181) unstable; urgency=medium
* patched crontab.5 in order to give useful information about using eval
command, which makes easier to express environment assignments inside
commands to call with cron. Closes: #773513. Closes: #876975
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sat, 16 Dec 2023 17:15:15 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-180) unstable; urgency=medium
* implemented a new feature: when a command outputs very long lines,
the message reporting them has wrapped lines. Closes: #777584
+ added a new test for autopkgtests.
* renamed a test file to please lintian, which issued a warning
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:10:27 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-179) unstable; urgency=medium
* improved crontab.c: it now emits a COLOR_RESET escape sequence before
sending '\n' to ttys. Closes: #1055197
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2023 20:11:18 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-178) unstable; urgency=medium
* checked that debian/crontab.main keeps /bin and /sbin in the PATH.
Closes: #1051138
* modified crontab.c, so `crontab -l` emits a COLOR_RESET escape sequence
to a tty unconditionaly at the end of the lines, to prevent prompt
corruption later. Closes: #1054327
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Wed, 01 Nov 2023 17:56:35 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-177) unstable; urgency=medium
* Included Alexander Schwinn's PR: this is about checking steps in crontabs,
to prevent insane divisions, like dividing one hour in more than 60 steps
for example
* added a new test 'step_size_out_of_bound' to check the previous change
* modified the fake editor debian/tests/cronfiller.py so it can take in
account an environment variable LINES to append some lines to a
crontab file.
* made a longer sleep (now 4 seconds) in the test
'check-messages-sent-by-cron' to prevent random failures due to a
heavily loaded host
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:41:20 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-176) unstable; urgency=medium
* added the switch -n in the synopsis line of cron.8
* enable debug by default (it must still be triggered by -x when
calling cron); enabled the -N switch when DEBUGGING is enabled for
cron.
* documented the -x switch in cron.8
* declared myself as maintainer
* made a roud trip with `gbp pq import/export`, which modifies the
debian patches (adding some information, like for example a summary
for every modified file)
* modified the patch features/Coloring_the_ouput_of_crontab_l.patch
in order to touch the background color when the foregroud color is
changed, and keep an acceptable contrast. Closes: #1053288
* added SyslogFacility=cron in the file cron.service. Closes: #1051619
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:45:44 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-175) unstable; urgency=medium
* removed the line SHELL=/usr/bin/sh from an example in crontab.5; this,
Closes: #166533
* according to Message-ID: <87il8y5n5c.8.fsf@jidanni.org> sent to
915289-done@bugs.debian.org, this bug should be closed now ??
Closes: #915289 anyway.
* uncommented EXTRA_OPTS="" in debian/cron.default; Closes: #1050702
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:30:35 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-174) unstable; urgency=medium
* modified the debian patch features/cron_now.patch. Removed the script
make_cron_now.py. Added a new switch (-N) to the cron command, which
makes it run the cron jobs once, like when a tick happens, an exit.
Documented the new features in cron.8, removed the command cron_now and
its manpage. Added an entry in debian/cron.NEWS. Simplified debian/rules.
Removed the dependency on libselinux1. Closes: #1050482
* modified the test suite to use `cron -N` instead of cron_now
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:30:24 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-173) unstable; urgency=medium
* fixed the code which colorizes the output of `crontab -l`
* added an autopkgtest for this feature
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:31:00 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-172) unstable; urgency=medium
* added a dependency on libselinux1, which makes cron package unfit
for hurd-i386
* adopted Dan Jacobson's suggestion for "2nd Saturday" and "morning
following the first Thursday". Closes: #854581; Closes: #820507
* fixed the patch fixes/crontab_5_manpage.patch, which deleted too much
lines from crontab.5
* adopted Stéphane Blondon's patch to colorize the output of `crontab -l`
Closes: #813614
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:56:03 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-171) unstable; urgency=medium
* applied one change proposed by Helge Kreutzmann (thanks!).
Closes: #964386
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:13:11 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-170) unstable; urgency=medium
* removed the reference to the missing file debian/make_cron_now.py
in debian/copyright, since this file is created by a debian patch now.
* added an entry to NEWS.Debian
* taken in account Vincent Lefevre's last reply about bug #1049964:
simplified _PATH_DEFPATH in pathnames.h and restored debian/crontab.main
to a reasonable content. Closes: #1049964
* renamed one debian test, and added there a some lines to prevent a
regression about #1049964.
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sat, 19 Aug 2023 17:15:58 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-169) unstable; urgency=medium
* modified the patch fixes/Usr-bin-sbin.patch in order to add the
older path /sbin, necessary for some commands.
Closes: #1049964
* checked that the sentence « The system administrator may create cron
jobs in /etc/cron.d/ with file names like "local" or "local-foo" » is
part of the file cron.8 when it is patched. Closes: #1035914
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:12:05 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-168) unstable; urgency=medium
* modified the patch fixes/Usr-bin-sbin.patch in order to add the
older path /bin, still necessary for the command /bin/run-parts.
Closes: 1049969
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Fri, 18 Aug 2023 08:22:02 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-167) unstable; urgency=medium
* adopted Daniel Lewart's suggestion for cron.8; Closes: #035914
* fixed crontab.5 for the example showing how to analyze the date
for a fine timing. Closes: #1032823
* modified debian/watch, so uscan does no longer report version 4.1 from
Vixie as the latest to consider.
* merged Alexandre Detiste's pull request
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/-/merge_requests/11
Closes: #1049353
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Wed, 16 Aug 2023 12:53:31 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-166) unstable; urgency=medium
* upgraded Standards-Version: 4.6.2
* modified the patch for crontab.5, according to Christian Buhtz' work,
thanks! see: https://salsa.debian.org/buhtz/cron
* reverted some of the changes brought by crontab_5_manpage.patch,
particularly those which broke the changes made by the patch
No-multiple-timezones.patch. Closes: #1025536
* marked cron-daemon-common package as Multi-Arch: foreign.
Closes: #1035314
* modified debian/cron.init in order to consider /etc/localtime, and the
patch features/Debian-manpage-and-doc-updates.patch
Closes: #1038836
* created the new patch debian/Usr-bin-sbin.patch, and mofified
debian/crontab.main, to modernize PATHs. Closes: #1042894
* removed the test compare-with-old-cron-files which makes less sense
now, as novelties which it was supposed to test were accepted by a
big number of users since the original changes, and because modernized
paths are different from the paths defined in older crontabs.
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:43:02 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-165) unstable; urgency=medium
* increased the sleep time up to 2 seconds in an autopkgtest, to let
the MTA finalize cron_now's actions on every architecture, more
securely.
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:05:57 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-164) unstable; urgency=medium
* added a new command named cron_now; it is meant to launch cron
jobs immediately, quite exactly as when one minute has elapsed
with cron. A debian patch provides the file contrib/make_cron_now.py
which derives a file cron_now.c from the source cron.c
* wrote a man page for the command cron_now
* modified one test for autopkgtest, to make use of cron_now
* added a build-dependency on python3 (needed to build cron_now.c),
and modified debian/rules to compile cron_now.
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:30:01 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-163) unstable; urgency=medium
* Checked that the patch debian/patches/fixes/crontab_5_manpage.patch
confirms that all features about @reboot were removed. Closes: #779845;
checked that crontab(5) manual page is no longer outdated as
Tobias Köck used to notice it. Closes: #1037442
* adopted Daniel Lewart's patch (thanks!), which improves debian patch
No-multiple-timezones.patch. Closes: #1025536
* modified debian/cron.postinst in a way which allows script lines added
by debhelper to be considered. Closes: #1038938
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:01:18 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-162) unstable; urgency=medium
* moved "Breaks: systemd-cron(<<1.15.19-5~)" to the package
cron-daemon-common. Closes: #1031231
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 02 Mar 2023 08:33:55 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-161) unstable; urgency=medium
* added "Breaks: systemd-cron(<<1.15.19-5~)"; Closes: #1031231
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 23 Feb 2023 12:10:17 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-160) unstable; urgency=medium
* disregard /etc/cron.yearly in debian/tests/compare-with-old-cron-files
* defined a "-n" switch for crontab, which means "dry run". This allows
one to call `crontab -n foo` which will check the file foo for its
syntax and report something, without writing any crontab.
Closes: #979578, thanks to 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
* defined a "-h" switch for crontab, which makes it display the help
information and quit. Closes: #946383, thanks to 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 13 Feb 2023 13:46:47 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-159) unstable; urgency=medium
* included 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson's nice example into crontab.5
Closes: #955452
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:36:56 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-158) unstable; urgency=medium
* applied Ville Skyttä's patch. Closes: #998399
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 13 Feb 2023 12:29:28 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-157) unstable; urgency=medium
* create .placeholder in /etc/cron.yearly; Closes: #1015175
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 13 Feb 2023 11:52:13 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-156) unstable; urgency=medium
* reverted the previous change (dependency on dpkg)
* in debian/crontab.postrm, lanch dpkg-statoverride --remove only when
dpkg-statoverride --list return some override; Closes: #1027476
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:12:26 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-155) unstable; urgency=medium
* added a dependency on dpkg. Closes: #1027476
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 09 Jan 2023 21:32:55 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-154) unstable; urgency=medium
* fixed a date discrepancy occurring in d/cron.NEWS, about
Christian Kastner's changes which touched version 3.0pl1-119,
and another one in d/NEWS which touched version 3.0pl1-134.
* merged file debian/NEWS into debian/cron.NEWS.
* signaled some lintian overrides for package cron-daemon-common: hidden
files .placeholder should not raise warnings about
missing-systemd-timer-for-cron-script
* fixed spelling in debian/changelog, with US/English dictionary.
* used Reuben Thomas' patch to fix crontab(5); Thanks! Closes: #980374
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 08 Dec 2022 17:30:31 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-153) unstable; urgency=medium
* patched crontab.5, in order to provide an example of a workaround
for people who would like to address the multiple timezone issue.
Closes: #166533
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:31:51 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-152) unstable; urgency=medium
* new patch debian/patches/fixes/Check_for_timezone_changes.patch:
check the timezone unconditionally. Closes: #1019716
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 27 Nov 2022 20:41:35 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-151) unstable; urgency=medium
* bumped a breaks+replace clause, now against cronie (<< 1.6.1-5)
Closes: #1023325
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 13 Nov 2022 17:26:56 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-150) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Georges Khaznadar ]
* documented a little more debian/patches/features/protect-list.patch
* included changes made by Janitor:
+ Trim trailing whitespace.
+ Update standards version to 4.6.1
[ Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues ]
* Remove dependency on lsb-base (Closes: #1020603)
[ Debian Janitor ]
* Trim trailing whitespace.
* Update standards version to 4.6.1, no changes needed.
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 02 Oct 2022 18:54:39 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-149) unstable; urgency=medium
* manage characters \r and \b in a special way, since one could use
them to obfuscate a crontab. This patch closes: #585552.
Now one can insert characters \r and \b into a crontab's shell command,
`crontab -l` will show those characters in escaped format; so the
obfuscation is more difficult to create.
* introduced the debian patch d/patches/features/protect-list.patch and
the test d/tests/check-listings-protection to create the feature and
check that it works as expected
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jul 2022 15:43:43 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-148) unstable; urgency=medium
* moved the dependency on adduser from package cron to package
cron-daemon-common. Closes: #1013916; thanks, Mark Hindley!
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jul 2022 12:52:27 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-147) unstable; urgency=medium
* added a test for d/fixes/Pam-group-after-fork.patch
* merged Jorge Gualtieri's pull request, so this test is working.
* added a text utility to display text surrounded by a frame
* grouped the two tests which are waiting for a crontab job in the
same file, so there is one single delay
* modified dependencies for the tests
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:33:30 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-145) unstable; urgency=medium
* included Jorge Rocha Gualtieri's patch, and shifted the change
by many lines (closes: #983817)
* moved part of debian/cron.postrm to debian/cron-daemon-common.postrm,
added a condition in debian/cron-daemon-common.postrm: systemd-cron
must not be installed, to let it remove /etc/cron.allow and
/etc/cron.deny (closes: #773095)
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 04 Jul 2022 09:37:15 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-144) unstable; urgency=medium
* added versioned Conflicts/Replaces clauses for bcron and systemd-cron
Closes: #1012596
* added Conflicts/Replaces clauses between cron and other packages providing
cron-daemon.
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:33:28 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-143) unstable; urgency=medium
* modified the test "do_not_modify_previous_crontabs" in order to
prevent its output of the sentence "debconf: delaying package
configuration, since apt-utils is not installed" to stderr.
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 09 Jun 2022 14:51:19 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-142) unstable; urgency=medium
* added a test to check that older configuration files are preserved
when cron-daemon-common is installed. This test is successfully run by
Salsa'CI.
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:44:58 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-141) experimental; urgency=medium
* removed the patch fixes/Validate-MAILTO-input.patch, and
refreshed other patches to fit the change. All the additions made
by the file fixes/Validate-MAILTO-input.patch were undone by the
other patch features/Add-MAILFROM-environment-variable.patch, making
it completely useless. Taken in account the environment variable
MAILFROM again, in the patch
features/Add-MAILFROM-environment-variable.patch
* tests added:
- correctness of the header added to new crontabs (checks the patch
features/Add-helpful-header-to-new-crontab.patch) in file
d/tests/check_significant_header
- debian/tests/check_mailfrom_mailto to check the patch
features/Add-MAILFROM-environment-variable.patch
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Thu, 02 Jun 2022 19:08:39 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-140) experimental; urgency=medium
* Created an additional binary package: cron-daemon-common; the new
package is there to separate the installation of /etc/crontab and
/etc/cron.* stuff, thus making easier to choose between cron and
cronie packages, both providing (hopefully) the same features.
* Added a few tests for autopkgtest. So far, tested features are:
- installing the new packages "cron-daemon-common" and "cron"
provide identical contents under /etc/cron.*, then installing
the "cron" package from debian/bullseye.
- when "cron-daemon-common" and "cron" are installed the only
differences in files /etc/crontab are brackets instead of
parentheses (which prevent launching a subshell)
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 15 May 2022 21:41:22 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-139) unstable; urgency=medium
* applied simplifications proposed by Debian Janitor:
- removed the dependency on debian-utils,
- removed the version constraints for dependencies lsb-base, libpam-runtime
- removed the version constraint for the suggestion anacron
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 15 May 2022 20:17:22 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-138) unstable; urgency=medium
* Added myself as an Uploader
* Add bitstring.h as a dependency to CRON_OBJ and CRONTAB_OBJ
* applied changes proposed by debian Janitor
(https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/-/merge_requests/2/diffs)
- fixed a line length in d/changelog
- bumped Standards-Version: 4.6.0, debhelper-compat (= 13)
- erased debian/cron.prerm, which contained nothing useful.
* replaced a sequence of spaces by a tab in line 18 of debian/crontab.main,
so line 18 has the same syntax as following lines of the same file.
Closes: #930765
* added the command `dpkg-statoverride --remove /usr/bin/crontab`, to
be called when the package is purged. Closes: #984586
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Sun, 08 May 2022 15:14:55 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-137.1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Non-maintainer upload.
* authorized characters like "=", "/" in email addresses.
the modified file is
debian/patches/features/Add-MAILFROM-environment-variable.patch
Closes: #990026
-- Georges Khaznadar <georgesk@debian.org> Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:04:41 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-137) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Laurent Combe ]
* Add patch Add-MAILFROM-environment-variable.patch
(Closes: #898177, #1750051)
[ Christian Kastner ]
* Modify the above patch to use cronie's safe_p() function for email
validation
* Remove myself from Uploaders
-- Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org> Mon, 22 Feb 2021 23:43:24 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-136) unstable; urgency=medium
* Convert package to source format 3.0 (quilt). Finally.
The conversion was mostly manual, and the process was documented in
debian/source-format-3.md. (Closes: #806225)
* Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0 (no changes needed)
-- Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org> Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:16:06 +0100
cron (3.0pl1-135) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Laurent Bigonville ]
* Stop using obsolete SELinux API (Closes: #924716)
[ Christian Kastner ]
* d/control: Bump Standards-Version to 4.4.0 (no changes needed)
* cron.8: Add missing reference to .dpkg-old. Thanks, Vincent Lefevre!
(Closes: #926713)
[ Jakub Wilk ]
* crontab.5: Fix misuse of en-dash in examples, and remove stray character
from the LIMITATIONS example. (Closes: #934543)
-- Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2019 09:13:43 +0200
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