[Bug 235464] Re: man 5 cron incomplete

[Philippe Cloutier]

I'm afraid this is back. It persists in Vixie cron, and Debian 12 reintroduced it via a February 2023 commit which went in 3.0pl1-159: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/-/commit/693ff29b93d61dff7c1fd62d657ba5aedfa57e6f
In other words, even though there's still patch supposed to fix ( https://salsa.debian.org/debian/cron/-/blob/master/debian/patches/fixes/Manpage-corrections-and-improvements.patch?ref_type=heads ) and it's still in series, it's cancelled by a later patch on crontab.5: debian/patches/fixes/crontab_5_manpage.patch 
It's not applied in Debian 12 and unstable: https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/cron/crontab.5.en.html

This affects 3.0pl1-178ubuntu1 and above, and therefore 24.04 and 24.10.

Note that this is extra confusing now that Ubuntu ships numerous cron
implementations, including bcron, which never documented this, and
systemd-cron.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/en/man5/crontab.5.html

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Title:
  man 5 cron incomplete

Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in cron package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: cron

  According to man 5 crontab there is no way to use multiple recipients
  in MAILTO variable.

  According to man 5 crontab under FreeBSD  ( http://fuse4bsd.creo.hu/localcgi/man-cgi.cgi?crontab+5 ):
  "MAILTO may also be used to direct mail to multiple  recipients by seperating recipient users with a comma."

  And it works under Ubuntu also!

  Add this line to the man page of 5  crontab please.

  I've found the bug in http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/cron and it exists under Kubuntu 8.04 also.
   apt-cache policy cron

  cron:
    Installed: 3.0pl1-100ubuntu1
    Candidate: 3.0pl1-100ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 3.0pl1-100ubuntu1 0
          500 http://hu.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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