Bug#397648: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#515702: Bug#515702: ntpdate: "no servers can be used" with default configuration

[Jack Bates]

On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:35 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> He says he somehow ended up with a blank /etc/ntp.conf file, which
> shouldn't happen.

Thanks Kurt, on further investigation I realize that the ntpdate package
does not distribute an ntp.conf file, blank or otherwise. I think the
blank ntp.conf file I observe is a symptom of bug #397648, which has
been forwarded upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449267

Unfortunately neither bug #397648 nor the upstream bug show any recent
activity : (

After deleting the blank ntp.conf file and without manually
reconfiguring /etc/default/ntpdate, I can run ntpdate-debian