[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#736245: Bug#736245: /usr/sbin/ntp-wait: insufficient dependency on perl

[Peter Eisentraut]

On 1/21/14, 8:16 AM, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote:
> Please Depends: perl, and backport this to stable via proposed-updates.

If we do that, then someone will complain that ntp now depends on perl,
which they don't like for some reason or other.

The alternative is to split out ntp-wait into a separate package, but
that will create more overhead than simply depending on perl when required.

I kind of doubt that calling ntp-wait in a postinst script is reasonable
anyway.  I understand that you want to have an accurate clock, but you
could make that argument about approximately 37% of packages.