reassign 731594 ntpdate retitle 731594 Please make ntpdate package priority standard thanks
On 7 December 2013 10:25, Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.na...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > Hello, > > I think that a modern OS should take care of time synchronisation without > requiring user intervention. As far as I can see, Debian doesn't install any > kind of NTP client by default. (I'd guess that it falls back behind Mac and > Windows in this regard. Even my mobile phone synchronises time automatically.) > > Thus, I'd suggest to install as part of the base system an NTP package > (eg. ntp, openntpd, chrony) configured to act as client only. > > This issue has already been discussed nine years ago, however I believe that > user's expectations have changed through the passage of time and thus a fresh > look at the topic may be warranted. > > http://bugs.debian.org/397649 > I fully agree that ntp client should be installed by default. Checking dependencies of the available candidates (such that we can see what other packages they pull into standard set): * ntp - libopts25 (optional) * ntpdate - all good * openntpd - all good * chrony - timelimit (optional) Nothing too scary. The other concern raised was people on intermittent and metered connections (3G / dial-up), who may not want to have a daemon running that can't do anything, nor a daemon that would establish unwanted internet connections. To this extend ntpdate is the best package, as it is only executed upon network configuration without a long running daemon, nor periodic cron job. To resolve this bug report one of the above packages should become priority standard. From d-i point of view, any would do =) I recommend for ntpdate to become such one. Therefore I am reassigning this bug to package "ntpdate" for its maintainer to consider this change. Regards, Dmitrijs. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
