Package: ntpdate Severity: normal Hi Kurt (and everyone else in the BTS),
I've been going through the open bugs in the BTS again and have come to the conclusion that the whole ifupdown triggering mechanism included in the ntpdate package is a bug mess we're unlikely to get sorted out. It needs to be converted to sntp. Doing that inside the ntpdate package will still have everyone who had ntpdate installed for manual purposes run these triggered one-shot clock synchronisations, with unknown consequences to a running sync daemon. Therefor I'd like to propose to - drop all ifupdown hooks from ntpdate - document this in ntpdate.NEWS and the Buster release notes - if we get to it, create a new sntp-trigger (or similar) package that does include a very very simple one-shot sntp call only if no other time sync daemon is installed/running - drop ntpdate completely from Buster+1 Comments? Bernhard
