Document cron job file naming restrictions

[debian/debian-policy.git] / upgrading-checklist.sgml

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index 41220a0424ca91663c61ab7a105901d08bb900c1..982f017032658f00034a5bdb33a9106bfabb7a8f 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ Unreleased.
   now contain the value <tt>any all</tt> for source packages building both
   architecture-independent and architecture-dependent packages.
   </item>
+<tag>9.5</tag>
+  <item>Cron job file names must not contain <tt>.</tt> or <tt>+</tt> or
+  they will be ignored by cron.  They should replace those characters
+  with <tt>_</tt>.  If a package provides multiple cron job files in the
+  same directory, they should each start with the package name (possibly
+  modified as above), <tt>-</tt>, and then some suitable prefix.
+  </item>
 <tag>9.10</tag>
   <item>Packages using doc-base do not need to call install-docs anymore.
   </item>