Source: netsniff-ng Version: 0.6.8-2 Severity: normal User: de...@kali.org Usertags: origin-kali
Dear Maintainer, I've seen that netsniff-ng recommends the package ntp. Is it because it needs to be sure that the system time is accurate? In that case, would it be better to recommend the virtual package time-daemon instead? $ grep-aptavail -F Provides "time-daemon" | grep ^Package: Package: chrony Package: linuxptp Package: ntp Package: ntpsec Package: openntpd Package: systemd-timesyncd $ cd /usr/share/doc/debian-policy $ zgrep 'name: time-daemon' virtual-package-names-list.yaml.gz -A1 - name: time-daemon description: anything that serves as a time daemon Please note that I don't know what netsniff-ng is or what it does. I was just working of building OS images for Kali (a Debian derivative), and I was wondering why some images came with ntp installed, and other images came with systemd-timesyncd instead. I found out that it's netsniff-ng that forces the installation of ntp and prevents systemd-timesyncd to be installed. I think it would be better if the package just recommended time-daemon without requiring a particular implementation (ntp in this case). But once again, I'm not familiar with netsniff-ng and I don't want to break anything! Thanks, Arnaud