As described in bug #514318 and elsewhere, the upstream NTP Project has deprecated the ntpdate program a long time ago, and it may be time to drop it from the Debian distribution.
Most of the functionality of ntpdate is now provided by ntpd (stepping the clock without threshold, stepping the clock and exiting without running the server). The only exception that I'm aware of is that ntpd doesn't support the use of an outgoing unprivileged port (ntpdate -u). On the other hand, ntpdate is not developed anymore and has lots of bugs and inconveniences, and more lightweight alternatives such as rdate are available now as well. Nevertheless, since ntpdate used to be quite popular, I figured I'd better ask here for objections. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org