Comment 42 for bug 606491

@Steve (comment #38):

> Under what circumstances are you seeing this problem? Is it a regular occurrence for you due to something like comment #34 (booting just before 7:30 every day), or an issue with a previous instance of anacron being hung?

It's all written in my comment #37.

I had it every time I booted or resumed my system before 07:30.

I don't have any hung cron jobs, plus this is a newly installed system, no hacks or random rogue cron jobs. I do have a long-"running" (actually waiting) cron job which is just Ubuntu's standard apt job waiting randomly for up to half an hour to level out mirrors' bandwidth. Nothing special here.

After using Kevin's patch the noise in mailbox is solved.

@Daniel and @Steve,

Reading what you write, I think we all agree and are just saying the same things with our own words until they are clear enough for the bug to be fixed.

Please read my comment #37 thoroughly from beginning to end and tell me what you think. Here are the sections names:

# Why we are here
# Why this is important
# Why this is a bug in anacron and not only apt or whatever.
## Normal operations
## Abnormal operations
# What to do ?
## Raise bug importance
## Fix anacron bug: disable noise mail that report overlap because it's really noise.
## Grant anacron's wish: get mail about *stuck jobs* (not overlap) because that's what sysadmin really need.
## Grant another anacron's wish: be more resilient to stuck jobs

Perhaps we should actually make different launchpad entries for the actual bug and for the two wishes.
That way, every entry(bug/wish) will have a clear focus and not call for discussions like "don't suppress important mail" vs. "but this is just noise".

What do you think ?