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Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2021-07-03
Severity: wishlist
A new an active maintainer is required for the cron package. Cron is a basic
system utility that runs programs periodically in the system, it is used by
multitude of packages and is part of the core OS debian tools.
The package is maintained in Salsa (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron).
I picked up the package in 2005 and have been trying to maintain it and fix
bugs in it and keep it more or less current. In 2014, Christian Kastner
joined as co-maintainer and has been done the bulk of the job in mantaining /
improving it. He recently did a fantastic job in converting the package to
3.0 (quilt).
He also provided its replacement, cronie, in experimental (package available
at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cronie, upstream available at
https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie)
Cron has been dead for years upstream, Debian still uses it instead of Cronie
as over the years the package has received many changes that are
Debian-specific.
Ideally a maintainer willing to help cron move forward would support the next
major task to be done: moving the Debian-specific patches into cronie and
providing an updated package for cronie replacement that can eventually
replace cron.
Please contact the current maintainer if you can help in maintaining and
improving cron.
Best regards,
Javier Fernández-Sanguino
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cron got a new maintainer a while ago, closing.
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