fcron

[Jeremy Bicha]

On 22 August 2011 02:17, Steven Sroka <sroka.steven at gmail.com> wrote:
>>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?

I filed a Ubuntu removal bug: http://pad.lv/830847 until someone wants
to maintain it in Debian.

Jeremy