On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 01:23:41AM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > Package: ntpdate > Severity: normal > > Hi Kurt (and everyone else in the BTS), > > I've been going through the open bugs in the BTS again and have come to the > conclusion that the whole ifupdown triggering mechanism included in the > ntpdate > package is a bug mess we're unlikely to get sorted out. It needs to be > converted to sntp. Doing that inside the ntpdate package will still have > everyone who had ntpdate installed for manual purposes run these triggered > one-shot clock synchronisations, with unknown consequences to a running sync > daemon. > > Therefor I'd like to propose to > > - drop all ifupdown hooks from ntpdate > - document this in ntpdate.NEWS and the Buster release notes > - if we get to it, create a new sntp-trigger (or similar) package that > does include a very very simple one-shot sntp call only if no other > time sync daemon is installed/running > - drop ntpdate completely from Buster+1
Works for me. Kurt
