Bug#343645: Processed: Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Processed: Re: Bug#343645: e2fsprogs: Superblock last mount time is in the future, fix it ? (Y)

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

tag 343645 wontfix
thanks

Please, no screwing with this glibc and util-linux issue.

It should be fixed by util-linux (patch 50% done by yours thruly), and
glibc. It is wontfix for initscripts.  It is almost-pending for util-linux.
I have no idea if, after util-linux is fixed, glibc will do the right thing
and make sure /etc/localtime is always valid (bugs will need to be
reassigned to glibc, I don't think they have been notified yet.

/etc/localtime IS glibc's domain, as timezones and locales are their domain.
It should be kept up-to-date by tzconfig.  It should be a copy of the
zonefile instead of a symlink.  d-i probably has to be fixed to severely
discourage UTC=no and to also do copies, but that's something else.

I am against futher breakage on this issue by trying to work around it in
initscripts.

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  Henrique Holschuh