[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Package merging

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 06:53:32PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Several bugs and previous discussion show that the current package 
> structure does not make sense to very many people.  I would suggest 
> that we merge together ntp, ntp-simple, ntp-server, ntp-refclock into a 
> single ntp package.  This is what most people want to use anyway when 
> they think "let's install ntp" or "apt-get install ntp".  The use case 
> for having a separate ntp-{clients|tools} containing just a few 
> programs from the current ntp package does not seem to be significant 
> (and, if I understood this right, it was never the intent of the 
> package split to have a separate tools package).
> 
> So eventually we'd end up with these packages:
> 
> ntp
> ntp-doc
> ntpdate
> ntpdate-udeb

Works for me.  I guess ntp will be providing/replacing the
ntp-simple, ntp-server and ntp-refclock package in that case, so
upgrades remove the others?  (There doesn't seem to be a need to
keep them as transitional packages, since ntp is already
installed now anyway.)


Kurt