Hi Laurent,
let me start by saying the gentlemen above are probably working on cron in
their free time. They do not owe anybody anything. So I think you can be
disapointed, but saying so will probably not have a positive impact. Maybe
it will on the contrary drain them.
That said, thanks for your offer for help.
I want to explore a bit how you (or I?) could help. After I've seen
your email I visited the package page:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cron
and I've noticed, that the `cron` in experimental is in fact `cronie`
(coming from RH/Fedora) which reminded that the plan was to replace cron
in Debian with cronie, since cron is not maintained upstream any more. You
can read about it here:
https://wiki.debian.org/cron
So I think the following things would be helpful:
* port features that Debian's cron has, but cronie is missing from
cron to cronie. Since both Debian's cron and cronie are forks of the
original cron, the should be somewhat compatible. Also Debian cron has
now split off its diff from the original cron into patches under
debian/patches. So the theory would be that you can take one patch after
the other, see what feature it implements and port it over to cronie.
Once the port is done you could submit that patch upstream with the
accompanying rationale that this feature is needed for Debian in order
to be able to migrate to cronie.
Also you could fork Debian's cronie repo and submin pull requests, so
Debian can integrate the missing features into cronie.
* you could install cronie on your systems and see what's missing or if
its working how it should and submit error or success reports to the
Samba repo (I guess).
* you could go through cron's bugs page
https://bugs.debian.org/cron
and see which of those bugs is fixed in cronie and comment inside the
bug. Maybe the maintainers would like to add a tag
"implemented-in-cronie" or such, so that they can see at a glance, which
bugs would be automatically closed by cronie.
What do you think?
*t
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Laurent Combe wrote:
near 3 years i report this issue
i joined a patch
and after all that time nothing, not even a "confirmed" tag.
very disappointing. What can I do to help this issue be accepted more quickly ?
