Source: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-196
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
If you upgrade from bookworm to trixie you get two NEWS entries, where the
second one supersedes the first one which talks about a 'cron_now' command that
they will never see. Could I suggest merging these now into one to eliminate
irrelevant information for users upgrading? (There is a lot of other NEWS to
read from other packages on an upgrade.)
Here is what upgrading users currently see:
cron (3.0pl1-174) unstable; urgency=medium
The command cron_now is no longer shipped with the package; it is
replaced by the call of `cron -N`. The new "-N" switch allows sysadmins
to run cron jobs immediately, without waiting for the next tick.
-- Georges Khaznadar <[email protected]> Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:30:24 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-170) unstable; urgency=medium
The package ships now a new command cron_now, which was meant to run
autopkgtests. This command allows one to trigger the equivalent of a cron
tick, which is processed immediately. This features can also be used by
sysadmins to test new changes in crontabs.
-- Georges Khaznadar <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Aug 2023 17:15:58 +0200
Raising as 'minor', because it is, but I think this would be worth getting into
trixie.
Thanks!
Andrew
