[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#528440: Bug#528440: ntpdate: possibly FTBFS on non-linux systems

Wed May 13 06:54:30 UTC 2009

On Wednesday 13 May 2009 01:29:30 Marc Dequènes (Duck) wrote:
> Package: ntpdate
> Version: 1:4.1.2a-2
> Severity: important
>
>
> Coin,
>
> You should build-depends on type-handling in order to use not+linux-gnu.

I can't say that I understand where this came from, but considering that 
people regularly report bugs and other things from hurd and kfreebsd, it seems 
to work OK.

The proper solution would be to write [linux-any].