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ntp package

  1. Bug #427775
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 427775

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote :

In reference to [1] the TL;DR summary is that:
1. ntpdate is deprecated
2. the patches got polished, tested and provided to Debian but not yet picked up
3. we are unwilling to add more delta to Debian for a deprecated binary
#. so if they are merged in Debian we will pick it up in the next Release, but unlikely do an SRU for it.

Great and more detailed summary including potential workarounds for old issues can be read at:
[1]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-August/039484.html