On 2012-01-15 00:16, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Christian Kastner writes ("Re: Bug#655339: Way wanted to disable pointless
> permissions nannying"):
>> retitle 655339 option to soften system crontab restrictions
>> severity 655339 wishlist
>> thanks
>
> Thanks. Would you accept a patch ? What way of controlling the
> disablement would be acceptable to you ?
Not at the moment, unfortunately. We're trying to clean up the code-base
(upstream 3.1 is from 1993) by converting to source format 3.0 ("quilt")
and then upgrading to 4.1, all in time for Wheezy, and adding new
feature now would increase the workload. So far, we have around ~60
patches (some huge), so every delta really counts to us...
I have set myself a the goal to have this completed by the end of
February, so it would to wait until then, at least.
Fedora's cronie (a cron fork) already has such an option, so this
feature request appears to be common enough. It's trivial to implement,
really, so a patch won't be required. Javier and I would still have to
debate the issue because strictly speaking, /etc/cron.d/ was created for
packages -- cron(8) still recommends against using it for anything else.
But even I don't follow that policy. I didn't make it though, so
changing it should involve some deliberation.
Christian
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