* Richard Laager <rlaa...@debian.org> [220119 14:34]: > On 1/19/22 9:49 AM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > > AFAICT other than systemd-timesyncd being installed by default we don't > > have a "default" NTP daemon in Debian. > > I'm not sure how much more "default" it can be than installed by default. So > I'd say we do have a default: systemd-timesyncd. > > > So we should most probably decide on a "default" and have all of them > > changed to $newdefault | time-daemon > > +1, except that my position is we already have that answer: > systemd-timesyncd | time-daemon
This is only appropriate if the package doesn't care which time daemon is installed. If the package depends on ntp because it uses one of the provided binaries in a script, replacing the dependency as you suggest would be inappropriate. A number of the packages mentioned by Bernhard depend specifically on ntp, so the reason for that must be determined for each individual package. ...Marvin