[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#455717: ntpd: source address does not update on route change

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 01:28:09PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx writes ("Bug#455717: ntpd: source address does not update on route change"):
> > I still can't reproduce this, things have always worked as
> > expected for me.  Can you still reproduce this?
> 
> The system of mine that's affected is still running etch, with ntp
> 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-2etch4.  I'll upgrade it eventually but I don't have
> plans to do so right away.
> 
> I can repeat the test easily enough with that version of ntp, or if
> the backport is trivial I'd be happy to try a more recent ntp.
> 
> Would that be any use ?

The version from etch will not work in any case.  I never had
a problem with the one from lenny.  But if you're going to
test something, I think the most useful version to test is the
one from unstable.

I'm not sure how easy it is to get this to build on etch.  You
probably need to remove the autogen build-dep and remove the
"--disable-local-libopts" part in the configure call.  You'd
also need to change libcap2-dev to libcap-dev.  We also changed
to debhelper compat level 6, but I think it should be easy to change
that back to 5, and used dpkg's 3.0 quilt source version, so you'd
need to unpack this on atleast lenny.

If you need some help with that, feel free to ask.


Kurt