Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.8p15+dfsg-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
I found since buster version, -p samples default value changed from 4,
which is in manpage, to 1.
So it will output "filter delay:" and "filter offset:" lines by
default in stretch version, 1:4.2.8p10+ based; but will not in buster or
later version, 1:4.2.8p12+ based.
You can check the output by command:
$ ntpdate -d -q pool.ntp.org
$ ntpdate -d -p4 -q pool.ntp.org
In manpage:
-p samples
Specify the number of samples to be acquired from each server as
the integer samples, with values from 1 to 8
inclusive. The default is 4.
So clearly the behaviour is not consistent with manpage.
Please kindly fix this, by either change the code, or update the
manpage. Thank you!
Cheers,
Roger
