Does anyone want to put in a vote on which way to break the dependency loop?  
Basically, there are two ways to go about it:

One,

ntp-server Depends ntp-simple | ntp-refclock
ntp-simple Recommends ntp-server
ntp-refclock Recommends ntp-server

Two,

ntp-server Recommends ntp-simple | ntp-refclock
ntp-simple Depends ntp-server
ntp-refclock Depends ntp-refclock

The first treats ntp-server as the well-known public package to install and 
the other two as implementation variants.  This is a bit like the kaffe 
package, say.

The second treats ntp-server as a sort of ntp-common package that gets pulled 
in by either package you install.

The first seems to be a bit more user-friendly, because "apt-get install 
ntp-server" will do something reasonable.  It also seems to have been the 
original intent, seeing that the user management is in the ntp-simple and 
ntp-refclock packages, which would seem to indicate that they were intended 
to be configured first.


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