[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#312454: acknowledged by developer (closing 312454)

[Richard Lamont]

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.


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