[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#484974: Bug#484974: about config files

[Peter Eisentraut]

On fre, 2012-02-24 at 01:27 +0100, Pierre Colombier wrote:
> Le 23/02/2012 18:33, Peter Eisentraut a écrit :
> > Well, everything is moving away from static boot-time-only scripts and
> > towards event-based handling (e.g., upstart, udev, dbus), so I think
> > that approach is not future-proof.
> 
> Ok. I respect this point of view.
> 
> but is there a way to ease / stantardize a way to enable or disable this 
> automatic sync on if-up ?
> I mean a way that would be immune to an accidental reactivation on a 
> package update.
> 
> > Also, note that ntpdate is deprecated anyway,
> Really ? What should I use instead ?
> 

I think the README.Debian file of ntpdate answers all these questions.