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Bug#679882: Processed: Re: linux: leap second fixes missing in 3.2 and 2.6.32 longterm



Hi Ben,

That would be great, considering that chance stands to have another leapocalypse end of this month :)

Regards,
Vladimir

On Aug 5, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 11:48 +0200, Vladimir Lazarenko wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Is there any progress on this one? It appears that out there on the
>> network there are quite a few stratum 1 NTP servers that didn't clear
>> their leap second flag and one more was injected on quite a few
>> machines end of July. I assume the same might happen end of August as
>> well :) Would be great if havoc can be avoided by having an officially
>> patched kernel.
> [...]
> 
> The leap second fixes are pending for 2.6.32.60, but we can consider
> applying them in an earlier Debian stable update.
> 
> Ben.
> 
> -- 
> Ben Hutchings
> Computers are not intelligent.	They only think they are.
> 


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