[Piuparts-devel] Bug#746721: Bug#746721: piuparts-master/slave cron file syntax wrong

[Holger Levsen]

control: severity -1 important

Hi Dave,

thanks for your flood of bugs against piuparts, seen with fresh eyes, much 
appreciated! Also I really like that you're using the packaged version, as..., 
well, see the TODO for 0.59 ;-)

Obviously I'd appreciate patches for all those issues as well ;-) But just 
patches for some would be awesome! :-)

On Freitag, 2. Mai 2014, Dave Steele wrote:
> Package: piuparts-master
> Severity: serious
> thanks
> 
> Cron files, installed in /etc/cron.d, are not in the right format. The
> required 'user' field is omitted.
> 
> Because of this issue, slaves are not started at boot, and no normal
> recovery or retest actions are taken. Reports are not automatically
> generated. Documentation is insufficient for straightforward manual
> work-arounds (see also #746718).
> 
> Setting to 'serious', because it "makes the package in question unusable or
> mostly so", or "makes the package unsuitable for release".

I've lowered the severity because a.) piuparts in master/slave mode needs 
(several) configuration adjustments anyway, so the broken cron job is just 
another annoyance and b.) because I value testing migration of the piuparts 
package for the majority of users as (way) more important than those of the 
piuparts-master package, which has a popcon score of 5^w8 now.
 
> This is assigned to piuparts-master, to avoid a release-critical bug
> against piuparts. The issue applies to piuparts-slave as well.

It will still affect testing migration...

> Also, more cron tasks than are necessary are commented out, with
> insufficient guidance on what/when to enable.

hmpf, I had thought that README_pejacevic.txt (which should be renamed/merged 
with README_server.txt) would be more helpful...

Thanks again!


cheers,
	Holger
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