Bug#377578: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#377578: Package appears to useless on its own

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 09:36:01AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Package: ntp-simple
> Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-9
> 
> It seems that the ntp-simple package is pretty useless on its own,
> unless you write your own configuration files and startup scripts.
> However, neither the dependencies, the package name, nor the package
> description reflects this.  Maybe you could add a hint to the package
> description that users should install ntp-server or ntp-refclock as
> well?

You need ntp-server.  It's in the Recommends.  We can't have a
Depends on it since we'd have circular Depends.

The plan is to actually merge everything back into 1 package.


Kurt