Hello Andrew, thank you for the bug report. I agree that reading two NEWS entries which overlap themselves, the second superseding the first one, is annoying.
Please can you help me to merge those entries? I ignore how to do it, and the page https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#common-packaging-situations does not give any hint about merging them. Best regards, Georges. Andrew Bower a écrit : > 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 -- Georges KHAZNADAR et Jocelyne FOURNIER 22 rue des mouettes, 59240 Dunkerque France. Téléphone +33 (0)3 28 29 17 70
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