Hi, On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 19:18:17 +0200, Christian Kastner <c...@debian.org> wrote: >one of the cron maintainers here, and also the cronie maintainer.
thanks for the swift answer. >> What is the issue that keeps cronie out of unstable? If it just a matter >> of personpower, or are there technical reasons? If it's just a matter of >> personpower, I'd like to help. > >It's mainly been personpower; however, that is improving. Any additional >help is welcome, of course. > >cronie was uploaded to experimental ages ago, but it's been rotting >there ever since. > >My goal for it was to patch is so that it is as compatible with our >vixie cron (which has quite a few extensions!), to make a transition >from cron to cronie as the main cron daemon as painless as possible. It is good to know where things are going. Would you mind if I created a wiki page with this road map laid out about where Debian's cron world is going? That would, though, only make sense if you could find the time to cross-read it and add omissions and point out factual errors. >Over the past couple of years, I've spent a considerable amount of >effort in converting the format to source format 3.0 (quilt), but I >never quite finished and got distracted with other stuff. Nevertheless, >I completed this conversion in February. I'll push it over the next few >days (I was just waiting for buster to be released before doing anything >drastic). \o/ It is good to know that there is considerable work going on, most of it being on the source code level, which is unfortunately something I cannot be helpful because I'm not a sufficiently good C programmer. I was not even aware that vixie cron and cronie share a common code base that makes such a migration feasible. >My current plan it to move from vixie cron 3.0pl1-134 directly to a >(patched) cronie as soon as possible, so that the default daemon can be >switched to cronie in time the next release. Great! That is good to know. Are you using a mailing list for this effort that I can subscribe to and see where I can be helpful? Or is this mainly a one-man show anyway? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834