Hello, I wanted to inquire into the status of this bug and patch filed a while back. There is a similar one opened here, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1722313.
To address just a few of the issues discussed in the thread for this bug... - Only hwclock would be affected by this change. I have enabled --with-audit in Ubuntu Xenial's util-linux package and tested the hwclock on amd64 and ppc64el systems. I issued, "sudo hwclock --set --date 11:36" And saw the following entry in my /var/log/audit/audit.log file, type=USYS_CONFIG msg=audit(1507653892.513:8900): pid=9909 uid=0 auid=1000 ses=433 msg='changing system time exe="/sbin/hwclock" hostname=? addr=? terminal=pts/0 res=success' The audit record was generated and all appears ok. - util-linux package is Priority: required and the libaudit1 package is Priority: optional. Possibly this is no longer a problem in reference to a change in Version 4.0.1 listed here, https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/upgrading-checklist.txt ? I hope to hear from you. Thanks! regards, Joy
