Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-110
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
After a recent system upgrade, I was presented with the following output from
apt-listchanges:
cron (3.0pl1-110) unstable; urgency=low
In the past, long-running jobs caused certain MTAs to time out,
resulting in no output being sent. Justin Pryzby's patch to fix this
has been included. It may be worth to note that Debian's default MTA
exim was not susceptible to this.
Tasks generating a lot of output no longer die with when no MTA is
installed.
crontab(1) now refuses any crontabs missing a newline before EOF. In
the past, this has been the source of much confusion -- especially
because the upstream code supposed to detect this was severely broken.
cron(8) now recovers from broken symlinks in /etc/cron.d. This fix
may cause power management issues (disk spin-ups), feedback welcome.
Christian Kastner came on board as a maintainer.
-- Christian Kastner <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:25:09 +0200
The purpose of the Debian NEWS file is to provide information about changes
to package behavior that may impact the user on upgrade. It should not be
used for:
- informing users about fixed bugs
- telling users about maintainer changes
- anything other than information that will help users understand and adapt
to changes in the system's behavior
This is information that belongs in the changelog, not in the NEWS file.
Please apply the attached patch, to improve the usefulness of the NEWS file
(and apt-listchanges overall) to our users.
diff -u cron-3.0pl1/debian/changelog cron-3.0pl1/debian/changelog
--- cron-3.0pl1/debian/changelog
+++ cron-3.0pl1/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+cron (3.0pl1-113.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Don't include information in NEWS.Debian that isn't relevant.
+
+ -- Steve Langasek <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:38:24 -0700
+
cron (3.0pl1-113) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Christian Kastner / Javier Fernandez-Sanguino ]
diff -u cron-3.0pl1/debian/NEWS cron-3.0pl1/debian/NEWS
--- cron-3.0pl1/debian/NEWS
+++ cron-3.0pl1/debian/NEWS
@@ -2,21 +2,13 @@
In the past, long-running jobs caused certain MTAs to time out,
resulting in no output being sent. Justin Pryzby's patch to fix this
- has been included. It may be worth to note that Debian's default MTA
- exim was not susceptible to this.
+ has been included.
- Tasks generating a lot of output no longer die with when no MTA is
- installed.
-
- crontab(1) now refuses any crontabs missing a newline before EOF. In
- the past, this has been the source of much confusion -- especially
- because the upstream code supposed to detect this was severely broken.
+ crontab(1) now refuses any crontabs missing a newline before EOF.
cron(8) now recovers from broken symlinks in /etc/cron.d. This fix
may cause power management issues (disk spin-ups), feedback welcome.
- Christian Kastner came on board as a maintainer.
-
-- Christian Kastner <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:25:09 +0200
cron (3.0pl1-74) unstable; urgency=low
