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Bug#590876: ITP: cronie -- Fork of the ISC cron job scheduler



Hi,

> The only way to properly integrate all our current features is a clean
> upgrade process from our 18-year-old vixie-cron-3.1 to ISC-cron-4.1,
> upon which the cronie fork is based. I'm almost done with that step (I
> went through every single commit since 1993, and a 4.1 package will be
> available very soon).
> 
> Once that is done, I'll begin feeding our bugfix and some of our feature
> patches to cronie upstream for integration. At the same time, there's a
> lot of other stuff that needs to be considered, from the anacron
> situation (IIRC it's just a simple copy of ours, so this should be
> coordinated with our anacron maintainers and the Fedora guys) to
> kFreeBSD (cronie makes heavy use of Linux-only features) to many other
> things.

I'm interested what the current state of this ITP is, especially since you
mentioned that 4.1 packages would be available very soon, which is now almost 6
months later.
Has there been any progress?

Cheers,
Michael
-- 
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universe are pointed away from Earth?

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