fcron

[Micah Gersten]

On 08/22/2011 01:17 AM, Steven Sroka 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?
>
>
If it's not updated before release, we should drop it.  However, as
Ubuntu doesn't have maintainers, anyone can update this.  At this point
it would need a feature freeze exception, but I think that should be
easy enough to get.   If someone would like to prepare an updated
package for 3.0.6, I'm happy to sponsor it once the freeze exception is
granted.  Please use Bug #591813
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/591813> for preparing the update.

Thanks,
Micah
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