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Bug#386157: kcron: marking any task "silent" causes error



Package: kcron
Version: 4:3.5.4-1
Severity: normal


Marking any enabled task "silent" causes an error when trying to save
the crontab.

~/.xsession-errors reads:

    "/tmp/kde-swift/kcronc1mQMa.tmp":3: bad minute
    errors in crontab file, can't install.

When you "disable" a non-silent job, kcron simply comments it out with
a '#\' in the crontab.  When you disable a silent job, the job line
begins "#\-" so I think kcron thinks using a negative minute means be
"silent" (like make?), but that doesn't work with Debian.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-8-corax-1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages kcron depends on:
ii  kdelibs4c2a                  4:3.5.4-3   core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                      1:4.1.1-11  GCC support library
ii  libqt3-mt                    3:3.3.6-2   Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6                   4.1.1-11    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

kcron recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information



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