Debian Bug report logs - #482284
crontab -e should use /usr/bin/sensible-editor

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: crontab -e should use /usr/bin/sensible-editor

Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:14:51 -0500

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Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-100ubuntu2
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Although reportbug collected Ubuntu versions of the listed packages, this bug
applies to the Debian upstream packages as well.

I have a separate patch to /usr/bin/sensible-editor, adding some
intelligence there to allow each system user to interactively choose
their preferred editor (or accept the default) on the first invocation
of sensible-editor.

It would be quite useful for "crontab -e" to leverage sensible-editor.

Section 11.4 of
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html
seems to indicate that this should be an acceptable change.

Patch attached (cron_sensible_editor.patch).

Cheers,

:-Dustin

Dustin Kirkland
Ubuntu Server Developer
Canonical, LTD
kirkland@canonical.com
GPG: 1024D/83A61194


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers hardy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'hardy-updates'), (500, 'hardy-security'), (500, 'hardy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii  adduser            3.105ubuntu1          add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils        2.28.2-0ubuntu1       Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6              2.7-10ubuntu3         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpam0g           0.99.7.1-5ubuntu6     Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1        2.0.55-0ubuntu4       SELinux policy enforcement, run-ti
ii  lsb-base           3.2-4ubuntu1          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  sysv-rc            2.86.ds1-14.1ubuntu45 System-V-like runlevel change mech

Versions of packages cron recommends:
ii  postfix [mail-transport-a 2.5.1-2ubuntu1 High-performance mail transport ag

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Message #10 received at 482284-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@debian.org>

To: 482284-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#482284: fixed in cron 3.0pl1-107

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:47:08 +0000

Source: cron
Source-Version: 3.0pl1-107

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cron, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

cron_3.0pl1-107.diff.gz
  to main/c/cron/cron_3.0pl1-107.diff.gz
cron_3.0pl1-107.dsc
  to main/c/cron/cron_3.0pl1-107.dsc
cron_3.0pl1-107_i386.deb
  to main/c/cron/cron_3.0pl1-107_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 482284@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@debian.org> (supplier of updated cron package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:55:26 +0100
Source: cron
Binary: cron
Architecture: source i386
Version: 3.0pl1-107
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@debian.org>
Changed-By: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a <jfs@debian.org>
Description: 
 cron       - process scheduling daemon
Closes: 465077 470587 482284 505288 511740 513379 535227 539182 546367 557659 563296 572249 572292
Changes: 
 cron (3.0pl1-107) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * debian/cron.pam: Use common-session-noninteractive in pam.d configuration
     instead of common-session so that libpam-ssh is not run. If libpam-ssh was
     installed the previous configuration resulted in cron spawning
     many ssh-agent processes (Closes: #572292)
   * debian/cron.init: Add Should-Start/Stop dependency to slapd so that cron
   * can start up tasks for users define in an LDAP (Closes: #557659, #546367)
   * Fix the use of perror so that the error message is correct when
     printing the reason why an operation failed. Thanks to
     Justin Pryzby for the patch. (Closes: 470587)
   * pathnames.h: Use /usr/bin/sensible-editor instead of /usr/bin/editor when
     calling crontab -e (Closes: #482284)
   * Fix debian/control description, thanks to Justin B Rye for the patch
     (Closes: #535227)
   * crontab.c: Produce a different warning message when root tries to setup a
     crontab for a user that is not allowed to do so, and do not log the
     action (Closes: #505288)
   * Only allow -i if -r has been specified previously (Closes: #513379)
   * Update debian/README.Debian to indicate that the package is
     being maintained at Alioth, thanks Tomas Pospisek for the patch
     (Closes: #511740)
   * crontab.c: Update the usage() call so that it refers to the use
     of -i when removing (-r)
   * crontab.1: Update the manpage:
      - Use the same option listing as in the crontab usage() call
      - Remove 'tweaked', explain what -u does in each context.
      - Remove V3, use 'Vixie Cron' instead
     (Closes: #572249)
      - Update the manpage years (Closes: #563296)
      - Describe the usage of the crontab group wrt /var/spool/cron/crontabs
     (Closes: #539182)
   * Use debhelper compatibility version 5
   * Include cross build support with patch to debian/rules provided by Neil
     Williams  (Closes: #465077)
   * Change maintainer's email address
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