• Bug#1104182: util-linux-extra: Please include lsclocks in util-linux-ex

    From Chris Hofstaedtler@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 27 15:50:01 2025
    Hi Witold,

    thank you for the report.

    * Witold Baryluk <witold.baryluk@gmail.com> [250427 01:18]:
    lsclocks is a handy small utility added in 2023 for checking timers and >clocks and their resolution.

    Agreed. It's not packaged yet because it was unclear how wide the
    audience really is, and moving it between packages later is a pain.
    You filed this bug against util-linux-extra, so I think you would
    like to see it in util-linux-extra?

    Also, I noticed few other utilities missing, like addpart, delpart. And
    no mention of this in README.Debian.

    Also some old utilities are gone (probably a good decission), like pg,
    and line, but these decisions are not documented in README.Debian
    either.

    For some programs we document the reason in debian/not-installed in
    the source.

    For line, the git history tells me line is deprecated, and was
    removed before buster. The same is true for pq.

    Indeed, where programs are not built by upstream's default choices,
    there's no documentation on it. line, pq were mentioned in
    util-linux's NEWS because Debian -used- to ship them, and upstream
    deprecated them. But this NEWS entry is so old, that I've removed it
    for trixie. Personally I'm not a fan of keeping a "history" document
    around, when we can look at the git history :-)

    I've stopped installing addpart, delpart in Debian revision 2.40-1,
    on my understanding that partprobe, (k)partx or a number of other
    tools can be used instead.

    Chris

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