[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#418913: Bug#418913: Source: ntp: Enable Hurd build support gain

[Kurt Roeckx]

> On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 16:12 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 03:44:12PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
> > My understanding is that hurd does not have all needed system
> > calls for ntpd to work.  Has that changed?
> As for timex.h missing that's still so, but as I wrote IPV6 is supported now.
> And ntpdate/ntpdate-debian works perfectly. For now we, at least me, don't have
> any need for ntpd, ntpdate/ntpdate-debian is sufficient. The ntpd daemon builds
> fine, but does not start, so no harm is done installing that package

I see no point in shipping a binary package that does not work as
intended.  If you install it, you expect it to work.

Also, I'd like to get rid of ntpdate and replace it by the sntp
binary (which currently isn't build.)


Kurt