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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