Bug#590876: ITP: cronie -- Fork of the ISC cron job scheduler
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at>
* Package name : cronie
Version : 1.4.4
Upstream Author : Marcela Mašláňová
* URL : https://fedorahosted.org/cronie/
* License : ISC
Programming Lang: C
Description : Fedora's fork of ISC cron
cronie is a fork ISC cron (formerly vixie-cron) created by Red Hat / Fedora.
ISC cron is somewhat dead, with no upstream development since 4.1 was released
in 2004.
As one of the cron Maintainers, I'm currently in the process of upgrading our
vixie-cron to ISC 4.1. My intention is to simultaneously forward most of our
patches to cronie for inclusion, opening the possibility of an eventual switch
from cron to cronie as Debian's default job scheduler. Even without the
Debian-specific feature additions, this would greatly reduce our maintenance
burden, as we currently have to patch in even such trivial matters as PAM
support.
Whether this fork deserves separate packaging or whether we upgrade our cron
directly to it may be subject to debate; I'm filing this ITP now to record
that work is already being done on cronie.
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