Comment 21 for bug 83604

Mika, I'm dropping the debian/ntpdate.default part of your patch. It's correct, and I agree that all other things being equal this documentation should be brought up to date, but it's going to be very common to have modified the NTPSERVERS line that immediately follows it (or to be upgrading a system where somebody else modified that line), and changing that text would I think result in a lot of dpkg conffile prompts. I'd rather avoid that when it isn't strictly necessary.

While applying this patch, I'm also going to make ntp.preinst check for an empty /etc/ntp.conf on fresh installation and remove it, to work around this system-tools-backends bug.