Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2023-09-11 Thread Mark Hindley
Andreas, Thanks for your thoughts on this. On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 06:16:08PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Since initscripts will need (and has) Breaks/Replaces: util-linux-extra > the circular nature of util-linux-extra having the same makes me think > this is something which might be

Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2023-09-03 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, This message was dated 8/22/2023 but arrived on 9/3/2023. From the headers, it looks like the 12 day discrepancy happened due to either buxtehude.debian.org or chiark.greenend.org.uk sitting on the email for 12 days without forwarding. SteveT Mark Hindley said on Tue, 22 Aug 2023

Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2023-08-24 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Mark, I quickly looked at both initscripts and util-linux branches and my only comment is about the util-linux-extra Breaks: initscript (<< ...). Since initscripts will need (and has) Breaks/Replaces: util-linux-extra the circular nature of util-linux-extra having the same makes me think

Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2023-08-22 Thread Mark Hindley
Andreas and Chris, Thanks for your input. On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 12:55:41PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > 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

Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2023-08-22 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
Hi, * Andreas Henriksson [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

Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2023-08-22 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello Mark, Happy to see progress on this. I'm adding zeha to CC as he has taken over the official util-linux debian maintainer role. 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

Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2023-08-22 Thread Mark Hindley
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 Obviously we

Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2019-08-13 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
[2019-08-12 22:37] Andreas Henriksson > > This is how things usually done on non-conffiles. Are there > > additional complications with conffiles? > > Yes, there are many gotchas with conffiles. Extensive testing is > needed. Yes. We could use semi-automatic tests in Docker, like

Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2019-08-12 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hi, On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 07:31:03PM +, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: [...] > Yes. Help is definitely needed. I guess, order of actions is following: > > * you upload util-linux= version and breaks with current >version of initscripts Not sure, I'll have to think on, what the right relation

Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2019-08-12 Thread Dmitry Bogatov
control: tags -1 +confirmed +help [2019-08-11 12:46] Andreas Henriksson > Package: initscripts > Version: 2.95-4 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > Please consider taking over the hwclock related init script (et.al.) from the > util-linux package. > > These init scripts aren't

Bug#934463: initscripts: consider taking over hwclock policy machinery

2019-08-11 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Package: initscripts Version: 2.95-4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Please consider taking over the hwclock related init script (et.al.) from the util-linux package. These init scripts aren't really related to util-linux in any way, they are just the old (sysvinit) *policy* on how to sync