Bug#499896: nvram-wakeup: Problem with Debian patch requesting a date at minimum 5 mins. in the future

[jpm]

Package: nvram-wakeup
Version: 0.97-14
Severity: normal

I have a particularly ill-mannered board that hangs at reboot once ACPI 
suspend has been used. Since poweroff was working I decided to poweroff and
wake a few seconds later. The alarm was set as part of S90reboot in rc6.
Using the Debian package I could not do that since nvram-wakeup wants a wake
date at least 5 minutes in the future. Using option -w 5 does not nullify the
effect of this requirement (to my surprise?)
So I decided to check the source and discovered the upstream program can do it,
and has no -w option either.
I suggest adding an option to allow alarm delays that measure in seconds.

Regards,
--JPM
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1000, 'testing'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nvram-wakeup depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  makedev                       2.3.1-88   creates device files in /dev

nvram-wakeup recommends no packages.

nvram-wakeup suggests no packages.

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