[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#422347: Packaging ntpq seperately

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Am 06.07.2017 um 22:06 schrieb Josip Rodin:

Hi Josip,

> I've read the discussion that happened after the message to -done and I'm at
> a loss for words - this kind of a decision would go against the BCP of some
> twenty years of Debian packaging.
> 
> Yes, it's common to set up a network service in a way that only localhost
> will access it. No, that doesn't conflict with the idea that server software
> goes into server software packages and client software goes into client
> software packages.

Well, patches accepted, but ntpq is not really the client for ntp (or
the ntp protocol). It can be compared to a control program, which is
often inside the server package (i.e. unbound-control in unbound).

ntpdate or sntp are NTP clients, which are already packaged seperately.

Bernhard