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

[Peter Eisentraut]

On ons, 2010-12-08 at 22:02 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Can't system-tools-backends clean up the file that it had
> erroneously
> > placed?
> 
> It would have to be done in a system-tools-backends maintainer script.
> I'm not really sure why it's any better to do that in
> system-tools-backends vs. in ntp;

system-tools-backends broke it, so they should fix it, if possible.  Why
should package B clean up the mess of package A.  Of course in some
cases it's necessary because there is no other way, but I'm not clear on
whether that's the case here.  You don't appear to be either.