Hi, FYI, cron is looking for a new maintainer, see #984736, so I guess that is why there hasn't been any activity yet.
On 2021-06-22 16:52, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Whoever wrote that patch should be slapped around the head with a copy > of RFC3696. As evident from the header, that patch was taken from cronie, RedHat's fork of cron-4.1. cronie is much more actively maintained than our own cron, which is a fork of Vixie cron... from 1993. > Go read it. Now, please. Understand it. Internalize it. Then update your > data verification code so that all valid email addresses will be > accepted. > > But first remove the "save_p" function from the cron implementation. It > is broken, and the fix may otherwise take too long, I suppose. The safe_p function and its use of were introduced in upstream, that is ISC cron 4.1 (from 2004), the basis for most cron daemons (cronie, OpenBSD's version, and others). On 2021-07-13 11:15, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Hello, as bug #990026 got no update for three weeks, I uploaded a fix to > our salsa repository, which allows characters like "=" and "/" in e-mail > addresses. > > I add the patch as an attachment. I'll upload an NMU. Best, Christian
