Bug#377578: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#377578: Package appears to useless on its own

[Florian Weimer]

* Kurt Roeckx:

>> It seems that the ntp-simple package is pretty useless on its own,
>> unless you write your own configuration files and startup scripts.
>> However, neither the dependencies, the package name, nor the package
>> description reflects this.  Maybe you could add a hint to the package
>> description that users should install ntp-server or ntp-refclock as
>> well?
>
> You need ntp-server.  It's in the Recommends.  We can't have a
> Depends on it since we'd have circular Depends.

Yeah, but the package description explicitly claism that "It is
sufficient for most systems.", which is wrong.

> The plan is to actually merge everything back into 1 package.

Okay, if this happens soon enough, it's probably not worth changing
the package description separately.

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