On 09/21/2011 10:32 PM, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 03:04:21PM +0300, Teodor wrote: >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> In man 5 crontab there are a few examples with "date +.." commands >> executed in cron jobs. However, none of these are working because cron >> considers '+' a special character and deletes the string after it. This >> is what I received from such an execution: > (...) > > I agree that the example is wrong and should be ammended but this bug > does not certanly qualify to be an 'important' bug. Important severity is: > > a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, > without rendering it completely unusable to everyone. > > And this is certainly not the case, thus, I'm changing the severity to minor. > > We will tackle this bug, hopefully in the next package release.
Actually, it's the unescaped percent sign '%' causing the trouble. Weird, I thought someone had reported and we had fixed this before...
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