Dear fcron maintainers, I am getting the impression that the fcron package is de facto orphaned and should be removed from the archive because:
* The last maintainer upload has been in 2006[1]. * The only reason that fcron isn't completely broken by now is that several people have stepped in and fixed the most serious issues[2][3][4]. * There are a lot of really old bug reports; most of them have not seen any activity in years[5]. The most recent comment from a maintainer to a bug report seems to be from last march[6]. * There are open security issues[7]. * The current version in Debian (3.0.1) is severely outdated: Upstream has released 5 new stable versions in the mean time[8] * Although upstream is not dead, there hasn't been much activity in the past years: Since late 2007 there have been only two small security and bugfix updates[8]. * The popcon numbers are really low, AFAICT there are only 160 reported installations[9]. * The combination of cron + anacron is a viable alternative. * Last but not least: There is a really annoying bug which causes fcron to send useless mails to the administrator[10]. Please tell if you intend to fix these issues any time soon. If I don't hear from you, I'm going to file a removal request in a few weeks. Best regards Alexander Kurtz [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fcron/news/20061012T124703Z.html [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fcron/news/20080330T113205Z.html [3] http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fcron/news/20080501T211706Z.html [4] http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fcron/news/20081029T111703Z.html [5] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=fcron [6] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572587#10 [7] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572587 [8] http://fcron.free.fr/news.php [9] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fcron [10] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=563273
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