Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-182 Please don't force colourised tty output by default. It makes the output unreadable.
Forcing one person's colour preferences on everyone is a vision impairment / accessibility problem for everyone who doesn't have the same visual capability as that one individual. Some of us have to very carefully adjust the colors (and fonts and sizes etc) used by our terminals so we can read the text - and it is very frustrating to have some program over-ride our settings just because one person happens to like blue on yellow text, or prefers that commented lines be highlighted. It's not even necessary for crontab to have special-case code just to colourise comments - there are several tools for colourising program output and other text, including colorize, highlight, supercat and others already packaged for Debian. If some people want garish bling in their terminals, they can use the tools that provide that. That's what they're for. At the very least, there should be a way to disable it. Or better yet, an option to *enable* colorised output (say, -c or --colour/--color) for those who want it. Or an environment variable e.g. 'CRONTAB_COLOR=Y' or (borrowing from GREP_COLOR and LS_COLORS etc) CRONTAB_COLOR='43;34' to both enable and configure the colourisation.
