Bug#850169: systemd should Provide: time-daemon

Paride Legovini pl at ninthfloor.org
Wed Jan 4 17:30:14 GMT 2017


On 2017-01-04 18:01, Michael Biebl wrote:

> 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.

Definitely a good point, this shouldn't happen. I guess that
distributing timesyncd in a different package (systemd-timesyncd, like
systemd-cron) is not worth the effort...

Paride




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