-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIR+umC1NzPRl9qEURArZDAJ9gZB0dRaeOd9PERxi62HZ/3byQbACeNoeh 3hoUWsjpXl+FirIjXV3GsQQ= =EMfy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
