[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#413692: ntpdate: incorrectly handles an empty ntp.conf

[Filippo Giunchedi]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

Hi,
consider the following case (admittedly a corner one, but still valid)

# touch /etc/ntp.conf
# sh -x ntpdate-debian
+ set -e
+ '[' -r /etc/default/ntpdate ']'
+ . /etc/default/ntpdate
++ NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes
++ NTPSERVERS=it.pool.ntp.org
++ NTPOPTIONS=
+ '[' yes = yes ']'
+ '[' -r /etc/ntp.conf.dhcp ']'
+ '[' -r /etc/ntp.conf ']'
+ file=/etc/ntp.conf
+ '[' -n /etc/ntp.conf ']'
++ sed -rne 's/^(server|peer) ([-_.[:alnum:]]+).*$/\2/p' /etc/ntp.conf
++ grep -v '^127\.127\.'
+ NTPSERVERS=
# echo $?
1
#

while removing /etc/ntp.conf makes ntpdate-debian work as expected.

filippo

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.14-susp2
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                     1:1.10-14    support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libssl0.9.8                 0.9.8e-3     SSL shared libraries
ii  netbase                     4.29         Basic TCP/IP networking system

ntpdate recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information