Bug#391841: debian-policy: Remove time-daemon

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 06:45:32PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

There are several packages providing time synchronization in Debian, and
it's useful for them to conflict with each other.  Having different
daemons all trying to set the time is probably going to screw their
algorithmes.


Kurt