please merge cron 3.0pl1-178 from Debian unstable

[Vladimir Petko]

tracking bug

[Vladimir Petko (vpa1977)]

cron piuparts install/upgrade/purge test

[Vladimir Petko (vpa1977)]

piuparts test mantic->noble upgrade

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package cron - 3.0pl1-178ubuntu1

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cron (3.0pl1-178ubuntu1) noble; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian unstable (LP: #2044015). Remaining changes:
    - debian/control: Move MTA to Suggests field.
    - debian/cron.default: change to a deprecated message to make it clear
      that the file is no longer in use.
    - d/p/f/inherit-path.patch: Add -P option to inherit PATH from environment,
      thanks to Tom Jones for the patch
    - Inherit PATH by default:
      + debian/crontab.main: Stop setting PATH
      + debian/cron.service, debian/cron.init: Pass -P to cron
  * Drop changes:
    - debian/tests/compare-with-old-cron-files: Compare against cron package
      shipped in Ubuntu Jammy instead of that shipped in Debian Bullseye
      [ Test removed in 3.0pl1-167 ]

cron (3.0pl1-178) unstable; urgency=medium

  * checked that debian/crontab.main keeps /bin and /sbin in the PATH.
    Closes: #1051138
  * modified crontab.c, so `crontab -l` emits a COLOR_RESET escape sequence
    to a tty unconditionaly at the end of the lines, to prevent prompt
    corruption later. Closes: #1054327

cron (3.0pl1-177) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Included Alexander Schwinn's PR: this is about checking steps in crontabs,
    to prevent insane divisions, like dividing one hour in more than 60 steps
    for example
  * added a new test 'step_size_out_of_bound' to check the previous change
  * modified the fake editor debian/tests/cronfiller.py so it can take in
    account an environment variable LINES to append some lines to a
    crontab file.
  * made a longer sleep (now 4 seconds) in the test
    'check-messages-sent-by-cron' to prevent random failures due to a
    heavily loaded host

cron (3.0pl1-176) unstable; urgency=medium

  * added the switch -n in the synopsis line of cron.8
  * enable debug by default (it must still be triggered by -x when
    calling cron); enabled the -N switch when DEBUGGING is enabled for
    cron.
  * documented the -x switch in cron.8
  * declared myself as maintainer
  * made a roud trip with `gbp pq import/export`, which modifies the
    debian patches (adding some information, like for example a summary
    for every modified file)
  * modified the patch features/Coloring_the_ouput_of_crontab_l.patch
    in order to touch the background color when the foregroud color is
    changed, and keep an acceptable contrast. Closes: #1053288
  * added SyslogFacility=cron in the file cron.service. Closes: #1051619

cron (3.0pl1-175) unstable; urgency=medium

  * removed the line SHELL=/usr/bin/sh from an example in crontab.5; this,
    Closes: #166533
  * according to Message-ID: <email address hidden> sent to
    <email address hidden>, this bug should be closed now ??
    Closes: #915289 anyway.
  * uncommented EXTRA_OPTS="" in debian/cron.default; Closes: #1050702

cron (3.0pl1-174) unstable; urgency=medium

  * modified the debian patch features/cron_now.patch. Removed the script
    make_cron_now.py. Added a new switch (-N) to the cron command, which
    makes it run the cron jobs once, like when a tick happens, an exit.
    Documented the new features in cron.8, removed ...