On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 01:25:36PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > Package: libconfig-crontab-perl > Version: 1.41-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: upstream > > The test suite gets totally skipped for me with the message > "no crontab available".
> Furthermore, the crontab(1) command is apparently not used by the actual > tests, only for the check, so the check seems doubly useless for us. I > intend to patch it away for now. Upstream says this is an intended safety measure for not breaking user crontabs. While this seems overly cautious to me given the tests never actually manipulate those, I suppose it's not our place to override it then. I'll upload a new version with a build dependency on cron and the 'crontab -l' check back unless somebody protests. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
