[pkg-ntp-maintainers] [RFC] berni-wip branch in git

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:56:03PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have made a couple of changes to the ntp package and pushed it into a
> seperate branch in the git repo. You can see the patches at
> 
> 	https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-ntp/pkg-ntp.git/log/?h=berni-wip
> 
> so far I've bumped the package to dh sequencer, compat level 10,
> imported a patch for reproducible build (although I did not test whether
> this indeed makes the package build reproducible) and added a change to
> use the upstream manpages where available.

If we want to move this to the stable release, the release
managers probably won't like such a change. But I see you plan to
upload to experimental anyway.

Anyway, I've been expecting a p10 security update from upstream
for a while now.

> I have also added a post-receive hook to send commit mails to the
> mailinglist, but so far they have not been received. Possibly they are
> moderated, I tried to get the admin password on the alioth admin page
> but failed (I think it is only sent to the current admins).

I received them.

> @Kurt: As far as I understand #793837, sntp should be now in a usable
> state and could be at least compiled and included in the package, right?

Yes.