On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/04/11 07:16, Heiko Baums wrote: > >> But let's try to get objective again. >> > > No need. A new cron for [core] has to pass only one condition... :) > > 1) a developer is willing to maintain it. > > So far that seems to be Thomas and fcron. > > > Anyway, I recall mention in our bug report of a patch being submitted > upstream that fixed the dcron timing issue. Would this be "solved" - at > least in the short term - if we got a copy of that patch and fixed dcron? > > Allan > My only concern with the continued use of dcron is the fact that this bug took well over a year to be fixed, and we don't know if it is fixed with the patch. As for finding a maintainer, I hope that would not be too difficult, cronie and fcron are not complex packages.