Can we depend on timedated?

[Martin Steigerwald]

Bart Ribbers - 23.07.23, 23:23:46 CEST:
> On Sunday, 23 July 2023 22:55:01 CEST Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Anyway, let's leave it at that to my current knowledge this is not
> > covered in Devuan, Alpine and Void.
> 
> I can answer at least for the Alpine side. We indeed do not ship
> systemd, but so far that hasn't really been a problem. timedated is
> as far as I know available in Alpine through openrc-settingsd, which
> is maintained by Luca Weiss who is also a KDE Plasma user _and_ a
> postmarketOS/Alpine developer. So from our side, depending on the
> timedated DBus service is not a problem.
> 
> So yeah OpenRC systems should "just" package openrc-settingsd. I don't
> know about FreeBSD or runit systems.

Thanks for this information.

According to build log there seems to be a runtime dependency on 
openrc¹. If that is the case, it could not directly be used for runit or 
sysvinit.

I do not see an openrc-settingsd package for either Debian or Devuan nor 
an ITP, but that could change.

[1] https://build.alpinelinux.org/buildlogs/build-edge-x86_64/community/
openrc-settingsd/openrc-settingsd-1.4.0-r0.log

Best,
-- 
Martin