[Pkg-mlmmj-devel] Bug#804436: mlmmj: installs incorrectly formatted job to /etc/crontab when creating a list

[Chris Knadle]

Phil Reynolds:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 05:51:20 +0000
> Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
[...]
> Hmmm... as I explain below, in my case it merely went ahead and did it.

[...]
> Just to clarify this, it did not tell me to add the entry, it just went
> ahead and did it, on the wheezy setup I used... had it told me to do
> it, I'd have spotted the error. The behaviour may have changed between
> versions, perhaps. However, as you say, it seems to be unnecessary
> anyway.

The current version of mlmmj in Wheezy doesn't add an entry to /etc/crontab
on its own, and I've been running mlmmj for two years and don't ever recall
it doing this either.

If mlmmj did do it at some point it could be proven by examining old
versions uploaded to Debian via snapshots.debian.org:

   http://snapshot.debian.org/package/mlmmj/

The two versions of most interest would be the earliest version that shipped
with Wheezy, and the earliest version that shipped with Squeeze.  Looking at
the release dates of Debian vs mlmmj I think that would correspond with
1.2.18.0-2 for Wheezy, and 1.2.17-2 for Squeeze.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
Chris.Knadle at coredump.us