[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

Tue Dec 7 19:31:32 UTC 2010

On mån, 2010-12-06 at 12:35 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> I entirely agree that this should be fixed in system-tools-backends,
> and I've sent a patch upstream (I'll copy this to the Debian bug
> shortly too).  However, there are a couple of fairly unintrusive
> things that could be changed in ntp to cope with this.  Firstly, Mika
> Wahlroos sent a patch to the Launchpad bug referenced above which
> makes ntpdate-debian disregard empty files.  Secondly, ntp.preinst
> could remove an empty /etc/ntp.conf on fresh installations.

I don't really agree with these changes.  An empty ntp.conf is an error
and should not be masked.

Why not just fix the GNOME side and let that be it?