Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ntp-simple
The naming of the ntp-simple package confuses me. I do not know very
much about NTP, but I do know that in addition to plain NTP there is a
modified version of the protocol called Simple NTP (SNTP).
>From the description of this package, I *think* what it is trying to say
is that ntp-simple is the package that you want installed if you just
want to be able to synchronize with an NTP reference clock somewhere
else. But the naming is confusing, because it could very well be the
case that this is the package you want if you want to be using SNTP.
Similarly, the ntp-server package is described as the package holding
common files for an NTP-server. This is sort of confusing, because it is
not immediately clear that the ntpd program running on your computer is
called a server, even though you don't intend on using it as a reference
clock. The description for the ntp package sounds very similar to the
ntp-server package. How are they different?
There might be a good reason for splitting up ntp into so many packages, but
based on their descriptions I can't tell. So I propose that either the package
descriptions are changed to make it more clear what is needed for what, or else
the package names are changed something along these lines:
ntp + ntp-server --> ntp-common OR ntp + ntpdate --> ntp-utils
ntp-simple --> ntp-client
ntp-refclock and ntp-doc keep their current names. I believe that on Debian
(older Ubuntu?) there was an ntp-client package; maybe the name was changed
because that name was problematic, but in any even the current names are not
great.
Again, some of these changes might not make sense based on the actual
contents of the packages, but just reading their package descriptions I
can't tell what I actually need to just have ntpd syncing with
pool.ntp.org (or what have you)
** Affects: ntp (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Change name of ntp-simple package
https://launchpad.net/bugs/75974
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