On Sat, 07 Dec 2013 11:25:16 +0100 Thiemo Nagel <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: debian-installer > Severity: normal > Tags: d-i > > Hello, > > I think that a modern OS should take care of time synchronisation without > requiring user intervention. As far as I can see, Debian doesn't install any > kind of NTP client by default. (I'd guess that it falls back behind Mac and > Windows in this regard. Even my mobile phone synchronises time automatically.) > > Thus, I'd suggest to install as part of the base system an NTP package > (eg. ntp, openntpd, chrony) configured to act as client only. > > This issue has already been discussed nine years ago, however I believe that > user's expectations have changed through the passage of time and thus a fresh > look at the topic may be warranted. > > http://bugs.debian.org/397649
This is a really old bug that, I think, can be closed. Nowadays, Debian uses systemd as /sbin/init and that comes with timesyncd, which implements the simple NTP protocol. The only Debian port that would need openntpd is Hurd, since systemd is unlikely to ever ported to Hurd. A bug was open towards that (#1132083 FTBFS on Hurd). Martin-Éric
