Telling the user to manually back up a file because the program might delete it with no warning is NOT a good solution.
Totally ignored, and marked invalid. Typical. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to cron in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1451286 Title: crontab -r deletes cron entries without asking for confirmation Status in cron package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: type: crontab -r Expected use case : should ask user if they really want to delete this file, of which there are no backups on the system by default, and may take hours to restore by hand, if it's even possible. what happens: user's cron entry is deleted with no warning. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/1451286/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
