[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#635752: ntp: Please include systemd service file

[Alexandre Detiste]

> Another optional way to go is consider that systemd already includes his
> own timesync service,
> therefore may be better disable or unistall ntp and use
> systemd-timesyncd.
>
> Jordi Pujol

Hi Jordi, 

I believe that the goal of this bug report is to make the NTP package better;
not to ditch it and replace it by some experimental (avaible since v213) half solution (client only).

This kind of suggestions should rather be sent to pkg-systemd-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org .

Though... I gave your idea a try and packaged it, 
it would be a nice fit for my RaspberryPi that lacks an RTC,
it can also replace fake-hwclock there.

As systemd-timesyncd is already provided in the "systemd" package,
this only contains postinst/prerm/postrm scripts.

source: https://github.com/a-detiste/systemd-timesyncd
deb: http://ssh.detiste.be/repos/pool/main/s/systemd-timesyncd/

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By the way, as long as this NTP bug from 2005 is not solved;
you may need to provide a dummy NTP with equivs.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316549

Alexandre Detiste
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