Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Fri, 2019-10-04 at 00:54 -0500, Richard Laager wrote: > This is my first time with the Debian proposed update process (though > I have done my own Ubuntu SRU once), so please bear with me and let > me know if I've done anything wrong.
Seems OK to me. :-) > The debdiff from the current version in Buster is attached. All of > these > fixes are in the version of ntpsec in Debian unstable. > > > This upload is to fix several things, most importantly the first two: > > * Backport fix for slow DNS retries (Closes: 924192) > > The user described this pretty well, "What seems to be happening is > that if DNS is not immediately available when ntpsec starts, it waits > about 10 minutes before trying again. Ten minutes is too long." > > This is fixed by backporting an upstream commit which has made it > into an upstream point release. > > > * Fix ntpdate -s (syslog) to fix the if-up hook (Closes: 931414) [...] > It may be controversial that I'm including fixes for bugs in man > pages, including some without Debian bug numbers. The fixes below are > trivial and only affect two (related) man pages. I likely would not > have made a buster update for them alone, but since I'm making an > update anyway, it seemed reasonable to me to include those fixes. Indeed. That basically matches our policy - documentation fixes are generally fine when part of a larger update, but not usually on their own unless the incorrect documentation causes a severe bug. Please go ahead with the upload. Regards, Adam
