[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#862026: unblock: ntp/1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-2 (pre-approval)

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: unblock

Hi,

I'd like to ask for a pre-approval to upload the following fix targeted
for stretch to unstable.

Since version 1:4.2.8p3+dfsg-1 (after Jessie) the default configuration of
ntp uses the "pool" statement instead of "server" to access pool.ntp.org. 

ntpdate-debian parses ntp.conf to find a NTP server to talk to. The regexp
to also match "pool" directives was supposed to be fixed in 1:4.2.8p7+dfsg-1
somewhere (according to the BTS), but I could not find any version in
Debian carrying this.

The change has been included in Ubuntu for quite a while.

ntp (1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.2) xenial; urgency=medium

  * Fix ntpdate-debian to be able to parse new config of ntp (LP: #1576698)

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>  Tue, 20 Sep 2016 14:24:29 +0200

With the bug present ntpdate will not work with the default configuration.

Since we're at it I'd also like to adjust some metadata, Vcs pointing to 
git instead of svn and adding myself as Uploader (see RFH Bug#855342).

unblock ntp/1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-2

Bernhard
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