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On 2008-06-04 17:59, Stackpole, Chris wrote:
I just found this information out this morning when I did a fresh
install of Lenny and couldn't find ntpdate. I think my heart skipped
a beat.
I don't know what are the chances of ntp entering lenny again. From
looking at the bug report that triggered its removal, it is 'just' a
licence violation (ie. not functionality or security etc.).
As far as I can tell, the bug that prevents sid's version
transition to testing also affects etch [1,2]. So people upgrading
from
etch at least don't get into a worse position than by sticking with
etch.
Note, that the upstream bugs, quoted by the debian bug [2] have been
fixed [3] for ntp's present release candidate [4].
If you can live with the licence violation for the time being and hope
for it being fixed for lenny, you could just stick with the old
version
from lenny or the current from sid and wait for the upgrade.
It would be welcome if someone more knowledgeable about this issue
could
comment about the likelihood of a fix in debian.
Cheers,
Johannes
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/ntp.html
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448408
[3] http://bugs.ntp.org/931
http://bugs.ntp.org/952
[4] http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/SoftwareDownloads
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