[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#625572: ntpq -c "rv 0 state" doesn't work anymore

[Douglas F. Calvert]

Package: ntp
Followup-For: Bug #625572

state is no longer a valid system variable:

http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpq.html

I can not seem to find any documentation about the changes in variable reporting. 

What did 4 indicate? I think you want to parse the system status word, which is no fun...

I think this bug should be closed as it is not a problem with the package. Upstream changed the reporting values...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser      3.113          
ii  dpkg         1.16.1         
ii  libc6        2.13-21        
ii  libcap2      1:2.22-1       
ii  libedit2     2.11-20080614-3
ii  libopts25    1:5.12-0.1     
ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.0e-2       
ii  lsb-base     3.2-28         
ii  netbase      4.46           

Versions of packages ntp recommends:
ii  perl  5.12.4-5

Versions of packages ntp suggests:
ii  ntp-doc  1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/ntp changed [not included]
/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp'
/etc/ntp.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information