Bug#850169: systemd should Provide: time-daemon

[Michael Biebl]

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Am 04.01.2017 um 17:16 schrieb Paride Legovini:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 232-8
> Severity: minor
> 
> Dear Maintainers,
> 
> As systemd now comes with systemd-timesyncd, this package should
> Provide: time-daemon, so packages depending on this virtual package
> will have this dependency fulfilled without installing ntp.

Is it defined somewhere what time-daemon is supposed to provide?
Keep in mind that timesyncd is only a client implementation for SNTP,
not a full featured NTP server.

I also notice that ntp itself does not itself have a provides
time-daemon, only chrony and openntpd do.

Those do have Conflicts/Replaces/Provides: time-daemon

So, by adding Provides: time-daemon, it would make those packages
uninstallable and maybe someone wants to use chrony or openntpd instead
of timesyncd.

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