On 1/11/19 6:37 AM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: > [2018-07-19 23:47] Richard Laager <rlaa...@wiktel.com> >> My current intention is to rename the service from ntp.service to >> ntpsec.service. Accordingly, I'm undoing my severity change here. > > For what it worth, you may be interested virtual facilities > (/etc/insserv.conf). We could introduce new virtual dependency $ntp, > provided by either ntp or ntpsec package.
Thanks for the reference. My initial desire to use "ntp" as the service name was for backwards-compatibility with system administrators, not other services' dependencies, so a virtual dependency wouldn't matter. Somewhat related, there is an existing $time virtual service: https://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts Note that ntpsec (like ntp) is not providing a $time implementation. The $time service should depend on an ntpwait service, not simply ntpd, because $time is defined as when the clock is _set_. If you wish to discuss that further, we should move off this bug, either to private email or to a new bug on ntpsec. -- Richard