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Bug #118168: Crontab accepts files with no newline before EOL/EOF. Cron ignores file

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27. By Jamie Strandboge on 2010-08-24

* Merge from debian unstable for documentation updates and reading of
  /etc/default/locale. Remaining changes:
  - debian/control:
    + Build-Depends on debhelper >= 7.3.15ubuntu2, for Upstart
    + Drop MTA and lockfile-args to Suggests
  - add debian/cron.upstart
  - debian/postinst: remove calls to update-rc.d, invoke-rc.d and
    /etc/init.d/cron
  - debian/postrm: remove call to update-rc.d
  - debian/prerm: remove calls to invoke-rc.d and /etc/init.d/cron
  - debian/rules: install Upstart job

26. By Jamie Strandboge on 2010-06-25

* Merge from debian unstable. Fixes:
  - LP: #46493 (this should have been fixed way back in 3.0pl1-87, and I
    confirmed it is no longer a problem)
  - LP: #118168 (Debian #79037)
  - LP: #151231 (Debian #155109, #443615)
  - LP: #308341 (Debian #437180)
* Remaining changes:
  - debian/control:
    + Build-Depends on debhelper >= 7.3.15ubuntu2, for Upstart
    + Drop MTA and lockfile-args to Suggests
  - add debian/cron.upstart
  - debian/postinst: remove calls to update-rc.d, invoke-rc.d and
    /etc/init.d/cron
  - debian/postrm: remove call to update-rc.d
  - debian/prerm: remove calls to invoke-rc.d and /etc/init.d/cron
  - debian/rules: install Upstart job
* Drop the following changes, now in debian:
  - popen.c: check return code of initgroups() in cron_popen()
  - debian/control: add missing ${misc:Depends}
  - debian/control: Depends bump on lsb to >= 3.2.12ubuntu2. No longer
    required now that we use Upstart
  - debian/cron.pam: switch from including common-session to including
    the new common-session-noninteractive
  - pathnames.h: use sensible-editor

25. By Jamie Strandboge on 2010-04-14

* SECURITY UPDATE: check return code of initgroups() in cron_popen().
  Related to fix for CVE-2006-2607. Thanks to Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
  Pen~a from Debian for pointing this out. This can be dropped in
  3.0pl1-109.
  - http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cron/trunk/popen.c?op=diff&rev=0&sc=0

24. By Alexander Sack on 2010-03-05

rebuild rest of main for armel armv7/thumb2 optimization;
UbuntuSpec:mobile-lucid-arm-gcc-v7-thumb2

23. By Scott James Remnant (Canonical) on 2009-09-15

FFE LP: #427356.

* Replace init script with Upstart job.
* debian/control:
  - Add missing ${misc:Depends}
  - Bump build-dependency on debhelper for Upstart-aware dh_installinit

22. By Steve Langasek on 2009-08-24

* debian/cron.pam: switch from including common-session to including
  the new common-session-noninteractive.
* debian/control: depend on libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-11) for the above.

21. By Jamie Strandboge on 2009-05-14

* Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
  - debian/control: Depend on lsb-base >= 3.2-12ubuntu4
  - debian/control: Drop MTA and lockfile-args to Suggests
  - pathnames.h: use sensible-editor
* New Debian release fixes LP: #46649

20. By Michael Vogt on 2008-11-12

* Merge from debian unstable, remaining changes:
  - crontab.5 : Add details about multiple recipients in MAILTO
  - pathnames.h: use sensible-editor
  - debian/control: Depend on lsb-base >= 3.2-12ubuntu3.
  - Drop MTA to Suggests
  - debian/cron.init: Add the 'status' action

19. By Jean-Baptiste Lallement on 2008-07-30

crontab.5 : Add details about multiple recipients in MAILTO (LP: #235464)

18. By Chuck Short on 2008-07-10

debian/control: Depend on lsb-base >= 3.2-12ubuntu3.