On mån, 2010-12-06 at 12:35 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > I entirely agree that this should be fixed in system-tools-backends, > and I've sent a patch upstream (I'll copy this to the Debian bug > shortly too). However, there are a couple of fairly unintrusive > things that could be changed in ntp to cope with this. Firstly, Mika > Wahlroos sent a patch to the Launchpad bug referenced above which > makes ntpdate-debian disregard empty files. Secondly, ntp.preinst > could remove an empty /etc/ntp.conf on fresh installations.
I don't really agree with these changes. An empty ntp.conf is an error and should not be masked. Why not just fix the GNOME side and let that be it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org