Bug#383212: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#383212: ntp: relationships with -server, -simple, and -refclock needlessly strict, and block other packages from upgrading

[Peter Eisentraut]

Branden Robinson wrote:
> As far as I can tell, ntp introduced versioned Replaces and
> Conflicts on the packages now merged into it, when there was no
> reason to do so.

The reason was pretty much to get rid of the old packages while the new 
one is installed.  The control file for the ntp package is full of such 
conflict declarations with older package versions.  Are you saying that 
we shouldn't set a Conflicts against the old version, or should be drop 
both Replaces and Conflicts?  Unfortunately, I can't seem to find your 
patch.