Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2021-07-03 Severity: wishlist A new an active maintainer is required for the cron package. Cron is a basic system utility that runs programs periodically in the system, it is used by multitude of packages and is part of the core OS debian tools.
The package is maintained in Salsa (https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron). I picked up the package in 2005 and have been trying to maintain it and fix bugs in it and keep it more or less current. In 2014, Christian Kastner joined as co-maintainer and has been done the bulk of the job in mantaining / improving it. He recently did a fantastic job in converting the package to 3.0 (quilt). He also provided its replacement, cronie, in experimental (package available at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cronie, upstream available at https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie) Cron has been dead for years upstream, Debian still uses it instead of Cronie as over the years the package has received many changes that are Debian-specific. Ideally a maintainer willing to help cron move forward would support the next major task to be done: moving the Debian-specific patches into cronie and providing an updated package for cronie replacement that can eventually replace cron. Please contact the current maintainer if you can help in maintaining and improving cron. Best regards, Javier Fernández-Sanguino
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