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

[Peter Eisentraut]

On tor, 2010-12-09 at 17:55 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> I have no idea whether system-tools-backends is the only thing that
> might create an empty /etc/ntp.conf.  I don't see how you can have any
> idea of that either?

Well, if you want to account for that, then almost every package will
have to have extra code to clear out garbage that someone has left
around before the package is installed.