On Monday, September 22 at 1:36 am, Colin Watson penned the following:
This is just a plain bug, and I see it on my laptop too. In fact, see http://bugs.debian.org/210838. It looks as if cron 3.0pl1-81 will fix it, so let's try ... yep, works for me. That package is available from http://incoming.debian.org/ for now, and will be installed into unstable proper tomorrow.
Just reverted and installed the version you suggested, and 'crontab -e' is once more my friend. Thank you! -- monique