On 6/17/21 7:43 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > apparently cron added a MAILFROM envvar. The same patch added a > whitelist of the range of permitted characters.. > > We're a bit unhappy about that because it breaks existing installations: > some ticketing / workflow systems use the destination address to set > variables like severity or ticket category. > > Also this is not mentioned in the `debian/cron.NEWS` file. > > It's possibly a bit late to get this fixed before the release, but …
IMO, it's never to late to fix a bug in Debian, even in stable, oldstable, etc. Just, one must do it carefully. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
