Ubuntu
cron package

  1. Bug #36690
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 36690

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In , Javier Fernández-Sanguino (jfs) wrote : Re: Bug#217836: cron shouldn't run jobs twice during daylight savings time changes.

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 02:20:50AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> If there has been a patch for 2 years, and it's confirmed fixed upstream
> for half a year now, why is there not a fixed version in Debian?

The patch submitted to Ubuntu has not been included upstream. The patch at
Launchpad has not been (to my knowledge tried widely) and I'm not going to
introduce it in Debian's cron.

Actually, this is set as 'fixed upstream' because a fix was already
introduced to fix the "duplicate jobs being run" issue.

The fix, however, does not work in all cases. Reportedly, it does not work
when wildcards are in use. I still don't have a patch for that issue.

Regards

Javier