Bug#766345: Does not mail user in case of crontab errors

[Yuri D'Elia]

Package: systemd-cron
Version: 1.3.1+ds1-1
Severity: important

crontab(1) does some parsing on the user crontab, but since it comes from a
different implementation (I'm using vixie's crontab) you cannot really assume
the crontab is syntactically ok.

I noticed none of my user crontabs were running due to a
systemd-crontab-generator parsing issue.

However in these cases I would expect to receive a notification of the
parsing/generatation error through email, exactly like cron does.

Currently systemd-crontab-generator just spews an exception traceback on
errors, which do not even include the error line number.

I would say this is quite important for a proper crontab replacement.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (800, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 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 systemd-cron depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.21
ii  python               2.7.8-1
pn  python:any           <none>
ii  systemd-sysv         215-5+b1

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