[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#422347: Bug#422347: can't get ntpq without ntpd

[Josip Rodin]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 03:52:11PM -0400, Steve Kostecke wrote:
> Josip Rodin said:
> >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 12:04:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> >> I had the ntp package because I wanted the ntpq utility
> >
> >Now I found that I also have use for the the ntpdc utility on a machine
> >where openntpd suffices as the server.
> >
> >In general, all this generic NTP client software that doesn't depend on
> >a NTP server on localhost needs to be split out.
> 
> The same binary is both the "NTP client" _and_ the "NTP server".
> 
> If you do want to separate out the utilities the resulting package
> should be named ntp-utilities.

Er, ntpdc isn't the NTP server, it's a query program for the separate
server program called ntpd. It's customary to refer to these as clients.
But regardless, I really don't care much about the exact package name,
just about the restoration of old functionality.

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