Re: chrony backport for kernel 3.2.x-bpo

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:02:43PM +0100, Juergen Descher wrote:
> I forgot the changelog...
> 
> chrony (1.24-3.1+deb7u1) wheezy; urgency=medium
> 
>   * Non-maintainer upload.
> 
>   * Fix: Remove obsolete check for supported kernel versions (rtc_linux.c)
>       to run also for kernel versions 3.0 and higher. Since kernel 2.2 all
>       kernels have RTC support. Backport of upstream patch for version 1.26.
>       Solves: #642209 for version 1.24. Closes: #691340
> 
>   * Fix: Enable full support for kernel versions 3.0 and higher (sys_linux.c)
>       and ignore nonexistent patch level of kernel version (which come with
>       some kernel versions). Backport of upstream patch for version 1.26.
>       Solves: #628919 for version 1.24. Closes: #689012
> 
>  -- Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian@joonet.de>  Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:01:01 +0100
[...]

Judging by the changelog (I didn't look at the diff), the above
changes seem to be suitable for a stable update, to ease upgrades.

Ben.

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