Freeze exception: cron 3.0pl1-114

[Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at>]

Hello,

I'd like to ask for a freeze exception for cron 3.0pl1-114. We were
looking to upload this version prior to Debconf, but ran into some
personal time issues.

The bulk of changes affect only documentation (manpages, NEWS). Apart
from the fix for #591005, we consider most of these changes important.

Of the non-documentation changes, only a single LOC affects users
directly: cron's PAM config now also reads /etc/default/locale. There is
 no active bug for this ATM, but it was ultimately responsible for
issues such as #543895 in the past.

The remaining non-documentation changes affect only the packaging, the
most notable change being a fix for #585680.


Regards,
Christian



cron (3.0pl1-114) unstable; urgency=low

  * Cleanup of the package in preparation of the next Debian release.
     - Notice that only one change introduces new behaviour (debian/cron.pam),
       the other changes are just documentation fixes or cleanups to the
       packaging.
  * debian/cron.pam:
    - In addition to the reading /etc/security/pam_env.conf and 
      /etc/environment (obsolete config file) previous default,
      cron will now also read /etc/default/locale in order to setup
      the proper localisation environment for tasks.
  [ Documentation fixes ]
  * debian/cron.{default,init}, cron.8, crontab.5:
    - Updated documentation (comments in scripts and manpageS) regarding the
      reading and setting of locale information for the cron daemon and for
      cron tasks to document the new behaviour due to the above change.
  * debian/{preinst,postinst,postrm}:
    - Since /etc/cron.monthly/standard does not provide any worthwhile task
      anymore, remove obsolete /etc/cron.monthly/standard after upgrading
      (local changes are preserved, however). Closes: #585680
  * crontab.1
    - Minor typo fixes to the manpage.
  * crontab.5:
    - Added an example submitted by jidanni (thanks!), showing how to run a
      command on the second Saturday of the month. Closes: #584514 
    - Minor fixes
  [ Fixes to the packaging ]
  * debian/control:
    - Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.1 (no changes needed)
    - Added Pre-Depends for dpkg (<= 1.15.7.2) for a dpkg-maintscript-helper
      with support for safely removing conffiles
    - Added Homepage: field
    - Added Vcs-* fields
    - Upgraded debhelper dependency version for dh_bugscripts
  * debian/rules:
    - Replace deprecated dh_clean -k with dh_prep
  * debian/NEWS:
    - Apply Steve Langasek's patch to remove non-newsworthy content, avoiding
      unnecessary output from apt-listchanges during upgrade. Closes: #591005
  * debian/source/format:
    - Make source format explicit (1.0)

 -- Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at>  Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:51:21 +0200