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TODO stuff
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- Split of standard tasks to cron-standard, preliminary packages
  currently available at 
  http://people.debian.org/~jfs/cron-standard
  but we need to handle the conffiles so that they don't get messed up
  See bug #257393 and 
  Message-ID: <20050309142043.GB16617@dat.etsit.upm.es>

- Better behave with cron replacements, investigate how cron packages
  (like fcron or bcron) can be installed/deinstalled without breaking 
  the system. 
  This might imply fixing #304036 (which might help fix #312614 too BTW)

- Debate changing the policy of /etc/cron.d being a drop-in for packages
  only vs. a general drop-in for crontabs


Milestones
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- Convert source package to source format 3.0 (quilt)
  The current cron source package is the result of a 1993 upstream and
  17 years of commits. This organic growth must be normalized before an
  upgrade to upstream cron-4.1 can be considered.

- Compare our resulting cron-3.0 patches to FreeBSD's where possible
  This is intended as a safety measure; the goal is to identify any grave
  errors or other larger issues in our patches so we don't carry them on
  into cron-4.1.

- Review and update the ancient Debian packaging
  Certain elements are heavily outdated and must be either brought
  up-to-date, or dropped.

- Update to upstream cron-4.1

- Compare our resulting cron-4.1 to RHEL/SLES, with a focus on possible
  security issues (SUID/SGID, SELinux, ...)

- Compare our resulting cron-4.1 to Fedora's cronie (a fork of ISC cron)

- Consider switching upstream to cronie, or at least grabbing some
  of it's features such as INOTIFY support.