The bug is real and nasty- see the original bug #294636 for details. The bug is grave (and probably security) because it means that NTP doesn't work unless IPv6 routing is present and this may cause clocks to drift. Many ISPs do not provide IPv6 routing. This makes the package worse than useless, obviously.
It is marked as fixed in ntpdate/1:4.2.0a+stable-4. Unfortunately, sarge is *still* stuck on ntpdate/1:4.2.0a+stable-2, over a year after I reported the bug, and over 16 months since bugs #294636 and #293793 were reported by others. It is no good fixing a bug if the bugfixed version of the package doesn't get propagated to the users. It still hasn't been propagated in sarge, despite at least three independent bug reports before sarge was released. That is the problem. It still needs fixing now. -- Richard Lamont http://www.lamont.me.uk/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key ID: 0x5096714C Fingerprint: F838 740C 76B4 6EC6 9ECC 1C4D A4DE 3322 5096 714C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
