fcron

[Steven Sroka]

>On 22 August 2011 00:21, Jeremy Bicha <jeremy at bicha.net> wrote:
> On 22 August 2011 00:06, Steven Sroka <sroka.steven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can I request that fcron is updated in the universe repo? The version
>> there is over 3 years old. The version listed on the fcron homepage
>> [0] is from April 5th of last year.
>
> Actually, fcron was removed from Debian. See the bug report:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636235
>
> So this isn't a simple software upgrade as there were bugs that
> weren't able to be fixed by the Debian maintainer. Upstream isn't
> really actively developing it either.

I spoke to the author of fcron and he is still developing it. If there
were problems would it not be wise to either try the newest version or
drop it from the universe repo all together since it is still there?

>
> Jeremy
>
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