[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 01:48:37PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:02:28PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:46:31PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > > Can't system-tools-backends clean up the file that it had erroneously
> > > placed?
> > 
> > It would have to be done in a system-tools-backends maintainer script.
> > I'm not really sure why it's any better to do that in
> > system-tools-backends vs. in ntp;
> 
> I would also like to point out that the problem happens in case
> ntp is not installed.  So trying to fix this in ntp will not
> have any effect for people that have the issue.

It's harmless when ntp isn't installed, though (except for the ntpdate
part of this, where my patch certainly would have an effect).

Nevertheless, perhaps it's silly for me to be arguing about this since
I'm not the system-tools-backends maintainer, just some guy who tracked
down the issue and is trying to persuade people to fix it *somewhere*.
Would the system-tools-backends maintainer (CCed) like to comment on
this bug?  The root cause is fixed upstream now; this is the cleanup.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]