On 2023-08-19 13:01:28 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> someone on IRC pointed out, that:
> 
> 1) the original bug report seems to point out something that is not
> a problem on supported systems. On such systems, /usr/sbin and
> /sbin, and /usr/bin and /bin are equivalent.

IMHO, it is too soon to assume that all systems are usrmerge
(there should be a longer transition period of old machines),
in particular if it easy to support both kinds of systems.

At least, an *old* crontab file should have have been blindly
modified.

> 2) The patch in fefe29b3415fddc4163bc0f9a0b73dfde6564663 is broken:
> 
> -# define _PATH_DEFPATH "/usr/bin:/bin"
> +# define _PATH_DEFPATH "/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin/sbin"
>                                             ^^^^^^^^^

and this is not _PATH_DEFPATH that should be changed, but
debian/crontab.main (for /etc/crontab).

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