Re: fcron

2011-08-22 Thread Micah Gersten
On 08/22/2011 01:17 AM, Steven Sroka wrote:
 On 22 August 2011 00:21, Jeremy Bicha jer...@bicha.net wrote:
 On 22 August 2011 00:06, Steven Sroka sroka.ste...@gmail.com wrote:
 Can I request that fcron is updated in the universe repo? The version
 there is over 3 years old. The version listed on the fcron homepage
 [0] is from April 5th of last year.
 Actually, fcron was removed from Debian. See the bug report:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636235

 So this isn't a simple software upgrade as there were bugs that
 weren't able to be fixed by the Debian maintainer. Upstream isn't
 really actively developing it either.
 I spoke to the author of fcron and he is still developing it. If there
 were problems would it not be wise to either try the newest version or
 drop it from the universe repo all together since it is still there?


If it's not updated before release, we should drop it.  However, as
Ubuntu doesn't have maintainers, anyone can update this.  At this point
it would need a feature freeze exception, but I think that should be
easy enough to get.   If someone would like to prepare an updated
package for 3.0.6, I'm happy to sponsor it once the freeze exception is
granted.  Please use Bug #591813
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/591813 for preparing the update.

Thanks,
Micah
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Re: fcron

2011-08-21 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On 22 August 2011 00:06, Steven Sroka sroka.ste...@gmail.com wrote:
 Can I request that fcron is updated in the universe repo? The version
 there is over 3 years old. The version listed on the fcron homepage
 [0] is from April 5th of last year.

Actually, fcron was removed from Debian. See the bug report:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636235

So this isn't a simple software upgrade as there were bugs that
weren't able to be fixed by the Debian maintainer. Upstream isn't
really actively developing it either.

Jeremy

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