How to update Release Notes wrt #580887

Hello list,

I recently upgraded to squeeze and tripped over a bug in cron,

Basically a working, but somewhat invalid crontab user entry, silently stopped
working after the upgrade.

Since the bug won't be fixed, see below, IMHO it would be a good idea to make
our users aware of the problem.

So what is the procedure to add something to the release notes?

I found the debian-doc svn repository, but no package to report bugs against. Do
I need to send patches to this list?

Regards,

Stefan

PS: Please CC me, I am not on the list.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...i?bugX0887


Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:21:57 +0200
From: Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at>
To: bd@bc-bd.org, 580887@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#580887: affected
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110505
Icedove/3.0.11

On 06/06/2011 10:48 AM, bd@bc-bd.org wrote:

I just tripped over this.

Unfortunately this bug will have to remain open for the time being, the
amount of effort to fix it for cron-3.1, is too large to be justified,
as we are trying to get rid of cron-3.1.

I had an entry in my crontab:

42 7-24/3 * * * /bin/foo ...

after upgrading to squeeze, the job was no longer run and I did not find any
cron related error in /var/log.

what helped was:

crontab -e
:wq
...
... there is an error in line X, invalid hout

changing that to

42 7-23/3

For reference, this specific error is another instance of #533726.


Regards,
Christian





Your reasoning is excellent -- it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.


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