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and subject line Bug#480463: fixed in anacron 2.3-14
has caused the Debian Bug report #480463,
regarding anacron prints spurious debug message
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Package: anacron
Version: 2.3-13.1
Severity: minor

I assume that when anacron is run from the command line and there are no
problems encountered then it should produce no output. However, if
there's a @monthly entry in the anacrontab, then anacron prints a
message like:

  Checking against 0 with 30

This looks a lot like a debug message and should probably be removed.

The offending line of code is introduced by
anacron_2.3-13.1.diff.gz into anacron-2.3/lock.c:consider_job()
and looks like:

  printf ("Checking against %d with %d\n", day_delta, period);

I'm running with this option:

 -d Don't fork to the background. In this mode, Anacron will output
    informational messages to standard error, as well as to syslog.
    The output of jobs is mailed as usual.

(among others), which only mentions output to stderr, not stdout.

However, in this case the message is confusing because the user has no
real idea of its context, so it probably should not be made to go
to stderr but should probably be removed altogether.

I thought I had reported this previously, but can't find it anywhere.
:-(

peace & happiness,
martin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages anacron depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.28.4     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-24     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages anacron recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-104 management of regular background p
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.5.1-1    High-performance mail transport ag
ii  sysklogd [system-log-daemon]  1.5-2      System Logging Daemon



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Source: anacron
Source-Version: 2.3-14

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
anacron, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

anacron_2.3-14.diff.gz
  to main/a/anacron/anacron_2.3-14.diff.gz
anacron_2.3-14.dsc
  to main/a/anacron/anacron_2.3-14.dsc
anacron_2.3-14_i386.deb
  to main/a/anacron/anacron_2.3-14_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> (supplier of updated anacron package)

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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:46:20 +0200
Source: anacron
Binary: anacron
Architecture: source i386
Version: 2.3-14
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Description: 
 anacron    - cron-like program that doesn't go by time
Closes: 401838 461784 480463 490785 526919 527885 546169 548777
Changes: 
 anacron (2.3-14) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New maintainers (closes: #546169, #548777)
   * Don't ignore errors from make clean, per lintian
   * Removed useless anacron.postinst file
   * Added Vcs control fields
   * Point to non-symlink version of license file, per lintian
   * Updated standards version
   * Updated to debhelper level 7
   * Make init script reload action exit successfully (closes: #527885)
   * Properly encode backslash on anacrontab.5 man page (closes: #461784)
   * Removed spurious debug message in lock.c:consider_job() (closes: #480463)
   * Fixed incorrect use of SPOOLDIR in readtab.c (closes: #401838)
   * Changed mail-transport-agent to Suggests, and replaced exim4 by
     default-mta (closes: #490785)
   * Changed default syslog to rsyslog (closes: #526919)
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