Re: cron MAILTO/MAILFROM breakage: debian 11 Bullseye RC 1
On 6/17/21 7:43 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> apparently cron added a MAILFROM envvar. The same patch added a
> whitelist of the range of permitted characters..
>
> We're a bit unhappy about that because it breaks existing installations:
> some ticketing / workflow systems use the destination address to set
> variables like severity or ticket category.
>
> Also this is not mentioned in the `debian/cron.NEWS` file.
>
> It's possibly a bit late to get this fixed before the release, but …
IMO, it's never to late to fix a bug in Debian, even in stable,
oldstable, etc. Just, one must do it carefully.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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