[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#386323: ntpdate: no documentation or examples for configuration file

[Jon Dowland]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.2+dfsg.2-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

Parsing /etc/ntp.conf seems like a great idea, although
ideally the ntpdate package would either provide that file,
or depend on a package which did, or at least offer some
idea of the file's syntax. I realise it's not complex (I
just put "server pool.ntp.org" into the file to get things
working) but if you aren't familiar with it...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                       1:1.10-14  support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8b-2   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-10     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                       4.25       Basic TCP/IP networking system

ntpdate recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information
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