Re: The future of src:ntp

[Pirate Praveen]

2022, ജനുവരി 19 5:27:28 PM IST, Paride Legovini <par...@debian.org>ൽ എഴുതി
>Richard Laager wrote on 19/01/2022:
>> On 1/18/22 11:21 AM, Paride Legovini wrote:
>>  > I'd prefer making ntp a dummy package depending on ntpsec rather than
>>  > having src:ntpsec takeover bin:ntp.
>> 
>> If I understand correctly, you're suggesting src:ntp builds bin:ntp that 
>> is a dummy package which depends on ntpsec?
>
>That's what I had in mind, but the other option:
>
>> Another option would be to have src:ntpsec build the bin:ntp dummy 
>> package and remove src:ntp entirely.
>
>also looks sensible to me after all. No strong opinion.

Do we really need a dummy package for upgrades to work? Can't ntpsec binary 
package just add Provides: ntp (=$source:Version) ?

>Paride
>

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