Hi, * Andreas Henriksson <andr...@fatal.se> [230822 12:55]: > I'm adding zeha to CC as he has taken > over the official util-linux debian maintainer role.
Thanks. > On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 09:58:47AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > > Andreas, > > > > I have prepared the necessary updates to src:sysvinit to incorporate the > > hwclock > > machinery in initscripts. Specifically the files > > > > /etc/default/hwclock > > /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh > > /usr/share/man/man5/hwclock.5 > > /usr/lib/udev/hwclock-set > > /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/hwclock.rules > > Looks good to me. > > HEADS UP: One thought here is that the init script will still need the > actual hwclock binary. While util-linux-extra currently is > pseudo-essential I think zeha plans to make it a regular package at some > point in the future which probably mean you want initscripts to depend > on it (or make the scripts handle that hwclock binary is not available, > but that sounds less compelling to me). You might want to add the > dependency now so that it's not forgotten once util-linux-extra is no > longer pseudo-essential. util-linux-extra in sid has stopped being pseudo-essential. Please add the dependency now. > > Obviously we need to coordinate the transition and I will add > > Breaks/Replaces > > << the util-linux-extra version which drops the files. > > Although zeha should probably ack this, I personally think it's better > if a single person uploads both packages in a situation like this. Here's my pre-ack :-) > If you'd rather see that someone else some or all of the util-linux > poking then please say how you'd like to see it and I'll help out where > needed (unless zeha would rather do it himself). Whatever works for all of you. > Feel free to push a branch to salsa.debian.org/debian/util-linux with > proposed changes if you do prepare them. This would be best, then I can also have a check before it gets uploaded. > > If util-linux-extra were to use it, my understanding is that rm_conffile > > only > > removes *unmodified* conffiles so user modifications should be preserved. > > But we > > might consider synchronised uploads to experimental to test and confirm. > > Honestly I've forgotten all about how I envisioned this migration to > happen. Note that util-linux-extra took over the conffiles from util-linux, but I think util-linux did not clean up its part. This also should happen then. Glad there's progress on this. Best, Chris
