[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#515702: ntpdate: "no servers can be used" with default configuration

[Jack Bates]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-8
Severity: normal

The default configuration shipped with ntpdate is NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=yes, but a blank /etc/ntp.conf file. ntpdate does not depend on the ntp package, which distributes a non-blank /etc/ntp.conf

The ntpdate-debian script works great after manually setting NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=no, or creating a /etc/ntp.conf. However if ntpdate-debian is run without manual reconfiguration, using just the defaults, it results in "no servers can be used, exiting"

Would it not be better to distribute the default ntpdate configuration with NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=no, or distribute a working ntp.conf? so ntpdate-debian works even without manual reconfiguration?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash