[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#788014: does not start at bootup

[Elliott Mitchell]

I was able to recreate this without systemd.  In my case all it took was
to have a network interface that took a long time to configure/come up.
I'm unsure it is the best way to do it, it currently configures a switch
chip attached to an interface when the interface comes up.  This appears
to have had the effect of slowing down `ntpdate` which ended up hanging
around long enough to interfere with `ntpd`.

Since the new default configuration for `ntpd` is to allow extreme clock
changes on start that obviates the need for `ntpdate` on the device and
so I simply purged `ntpdate`.

Encouraging the removal of `ntpdate` may be the best solution to #788014.
There is a needed to be a notice to people that ntpd's -g option is now
the default and needs to be disabled if one has reliable system clocks.


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