On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 06:23:58PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Package: ntp > Version: 1:4.2.8p9+dfsg-2 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/bin/update-leap > > It seems update-leap is just broken, with the default options, because > it attempts to use File::Fetch to grab an https:// URL, but File::Fetch > doesn't support https:// URLs. > > Note that newer version of File::Fetch (apparently, starting in 0.50, > from August 2016) supports https:// but Debian doesn't have that > version, at least in testing.
You should probably use the file from tzdata instead: /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list I also don't trust that script, looking at: # Where to put temporary copy before it's validated my $TMPFILE="/tmp/leap-seconds.$$.tmp"; Kurt
