Unless I hear otherwise from the ntpdate maintainers, I have committed and will upload a change to use this code in ntpsec-ntpdate:
# ntpdate also uses this directory, so if it is installed, leave it. if ! dpkg -s ntpdate > /dev/null 2>&1; then rm -rf /var/lib/ntpdate/ fi I suggest something similar for ntpdate: # ntpsec-ntpdate also uses this directory, so if it is installed, # leave it. if ! dpkg -s ntpsec-ntpdate > /dev/null 2>&1; then rm -rf /var/lib/ntpdate/ fi -- Richard