Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Please package new upstream release. NEWS follows:
NTP 4.2.6p4 (Harlan Stenn <st...@ntp.org>, 2011/09/22) Focus: Bug fixes and portability improvements Severity: Medium This is a recommended upgrade. This release includes build infrastructure updates, code clean-ups, minor bug fixes, fixes for a number of minor ref-clock issues, and documentation revisions. Portability improvements affect AIX, HP-UX, Linux, OS X and 64-bit time_t. New features / changes in this release: Build system * Fix checking for struct rtattr * Update config.guess and config.sub for AIX * Upgrade required version of autogen and libopts for building from our source code repository ntpd * Backported several fixes for Coverity warnings from ntp-dev * Fix a rare boundry condition in UNLINK_EXPR_SLIST() * Allow "logconfig =allall" configuration directive * Bind tentative IPv6 addresses on Linux * Correct WWVB/Spectracom driver to timestamp CR instead of LF * Improved tally bit handling to prevent incorrect ntpq peer status reports * Exclude the Undisciplined Local Clock and ACTS drivers from the initial candidate list unless they are designated a "prefer peer" * Prevent the consideration of Undisciplined Local Clock or ACTS drivers for selection during the 'tos orphanwait' period * Prefer an Orphan Mode Parent over the Undisciplined Local Clock or ACTS drivers * Improved support of the Parse Refclock trusttime flag in Meinberg mode * Backport utility routines from ntp-dev: mprintf(), emalloc_zero() * Added the NTPD_TICKADJ_PPM environment variable for specifying baseline clock slew on Microsoft Windows * Code cleanup in libntpq ntpdc * Fix timerstats reporting ntpdate * Reduce time required to set clock * Allow a timeout greater than 2 seconds sntp * Backward incompatible command-line option change: -l/--filelog changed -l/--logfile (to be consistent with ntpd) Documentation * Update html2man. Fix some tags in the .html files * Distribute ntp-wait.html -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ntp depends on: ii adduser 3.113 ii dpkg 1.16.1 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libcap2 1:2.22-1 ii libedit2 2.11-20080614-3 ii libopts25 1:5.12-0.1 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.0e-2 ii lsb-base 3.2-28 ii netbase 4.46 Versions of packages ntp recommends: ii perl 5.12.4-5 Versions of packages ntp suggests: ii ntp-doc 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/ntp changed [not included] /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp' /etc/ntp.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org