[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 07:29:11PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On ons, 2010-12-08 at 22:02 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > It would have to be done in a system-tools-backends maintainer script.
> > I'm not really sure why it's any better to do that in
> > system-tools-backends vs. in ntp;
> 
> system-tools-backends broke it, so they should fix it, if possible.  Why
> should package B clean up the mess of package A.  Of course in some
> cases it's necessary because there is no other way, but I'm not clear on
> whether that's the case here.  You don't appear to be either.

I have no idea whether system-tools-backends is the only thing that
might create an empty /etc/ntp.conf.  I don't see how you can have any
idea of that either?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]