Bug#384857: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#384857: ntp: transition packages needed; ntp-simple removes ntp user on purge

[Julien BLACHE]

Bdale Garbee <bdale at gag.com> wrote:

Hi,

> I do, and the patch that Julien suggests looks reasonable and correct to me.  

Note that the patch will only help users who do not upgrade their
system regularly. The harm is already done for the others :(

To help the ones who upgrade regularly (and haven't purged the
ntp-simple/ntp-refclock packages yet), ntp should depend on
the dummy ntp-simple and ntp-refclock packages, so as to clear the
maintainer scripts from the previous packages. The dependency would
need to be kept for some time, which probably means releasing Etch
with an ntp package depending on 2 empty packages.

There's no good solution to this problem, it seems :/ Damage-control
time ...

JB.

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