[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#683061: Bug#683061: ntp: diff for NMU version 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2.1

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 08:22:02PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:04:21 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> > severity 683061 normal
> > thanks
> 
> Ok, NMU cancelled.
>  
> > > +  * Add init script dependency on $named, based on report from Helmut Grohne
> > > +    (closes: #683061)
> > That does not make any sense at all.  ntp can perfectly work
> > without named installed, and it works if named is started after
> > ntpd.
> 
> Well, there are quite a few init scripts on my machine with
> Required-Start: $named, and not a single one providing $named, and I
> also have no nameserver installed ...

bind9 doesn't seem to be providing it either.  So this looks like
it isn't doing anything in any of those scripts, and that the
patch is unlikely to fix anything?

I would assume if it declares a Required-Start, that that service
should actually exist and be started, and that if it's not
available that the package having such a Required-Start is
buggy because it's not having a proper Depends.


Kurt