[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#316549: time-daemon pseudopackage

Peter Eisentraut petere at debian.org
Thu Oct 4 12:09:15 UTC 2007


Am Mittwoch, 3. Oktober 2007 schrieb Philipp Kern:
> I've got one and I got mildly annoyed that this was not solved for ntp
> yet. I just got a bugreport against my package which wants chrony to be
> added to the `ntpdate | ntp' dependency of it. An accurate time is
> needed for aiccu just like for Kerberos because it is included in the
> handshake with the tunnel broker which will deny the IPv6 tunnel request
> if the time is too far off (IIRC > 300s).

I can only repeat my earlier answer: There is no definition of what a 
time-daemon virtual package does, so it's a completely random guess as to 
what should be done here.





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