Comment 4 for bug 2035061

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Paride Legovini (paride) wrote :

Hello, I had a look at the debdiffs and they look good (clean upstream cherry-picks). I think the packages are ready for sponsoring, but before doing so I have a couple of questions.

1. The issue only happens *exactly* after 52 weeks, or something like that, am I right? as I have systems that have been up for more than 1 years and their `uptime -p` is fine:

ubuntu@s1lp04:~$ uptime
 12:33:13 up 498 days, 15:50, 1 user, load average: 0,07, 0,13, 0,40
ubuntu@s1lp04:~$ uptime -p
up 1 year, 19 weeks, 1 day, 15 hours, 50 minutes

2. I don't have a SRU hat to wear, but my impression is that the SRU team won't find that [REGRESSION POTENTIAL] section entirely satisfying. One question to answer is: can any production system be relying on the "wrong" behavior of uptime? What's the worst case scenario caused by the SRU in this case? My impression is that the change is safe, but please expand that section a bit. (Note: the SRU template from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates now calls that section [Where problems could occur], to make it more clear what it is about.)