Greets all.

I've added those suggestions to the cron wiki page (https://wiki.debian.org/cron) in the hope that people that would like to help to move cron in Debian move forward can jump in and do things that are possible and useful.

I hope that's fine with you guys!
*t

On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Tomas Pospisek wrote:

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 ?



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