[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#484974: about config files

[Pierre Colombier]

 > /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate *is* a config file.

Ha! I know that you're literally right but you're playing on words.

I think it is quite well established that /etc/network/if-up.d/* are 
config files related with networking.
This is definitely not the place for time-sync tasks even if running 
them when interfaces goes up can sometimes present some interest. (I 
personally don't see the logical connection but that's not the point of 
my request)

I had strange behaviours with virtualisation hosts running the xen 
hypervisor because of this automatic time-sync triggered by interfaces 
going up each time i run a new virtual machine and especially at boot 
time. I had to investigate quite a long time to understand what was 
going on.

I've made a workaround for me. But altering 
/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate, can lead to another problem with the next 
update of the package, and i feel uncomfortable with this.

I think that ndpdate should have his own init script in /etc/init.d/
this would be much more logic and clear.