Bug#391841: debian-policy: Remove time-daemon
Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> writes:
> Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
>> The current policy has the following virtual package:
>>
>> time-daemon anything that serves as a time daemon
>>
>> However, I don't see any package that currently provides, or depends on such
>> a virtual package. Is this virtual package still needed? It seems it was
>> added in 2001 but not used at all.
> By any chance, someone could tell me what a time daemon is ?
I would assume anything that sets the system time. This package was
probably intended for packages to depend on when they need time
synchronization but don't care how it happens (for instance, AFS and
Kerberos servers can get fairly unhappy unless their time is
synchronized). However, if it's not being used, probably no point in
keeping it around.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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