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

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:59:01PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 06:45:43PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> I see, I didn't see that as 'grep-available -F Provides "time-daemon"'
> did not turn anything useful in my side, but it seems that my package status
> cache was not up-to-date. Sorry for the noise.

Use grep-aptavail instead of grep-available to avoid that issue!

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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