[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Missing sntp binary in stretch

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:24:46PM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On 17.07.2017 16:20, Mark Hymers wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> > #793837 refers to the missing sntp binary in ntp and has been resolved
> > in unstable.  The sntp binary was in the ntp binary package for jessie
> > (even if by mistake) and will be again for buster, so the absence is
> > something of a regression.  If I prepare a stable update patch for NTP
> > and send it over, would you consider asking SRM for a point release
> > update to add it back in stretch?  The fact it's missing (for just this
> > release) is causing me a few problems with custom initramfs build scripts
> > so I have an incentive to help get it fixed.
> 
> Hum, I'm not sure this can be considered stable material, especially
> since in Buster sntp is in a seperate binary package, which I'm sure we
> cannot introduce in Stretch now. So this would be another headache to
> take care of for migrations.
> 
> I think the patch would be trivial
> (https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-ntp/pkg-ntp.git/commit/?id=94f4338f6cc7922f7618144f382e005159e4e1fe
> plus installing into /usr/bin, since that is where Buster has it). If
> I'm not mistaken the Breaks/Replaces from
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-ntp/pkg-ntp.git/commit/?id=134712e5914b3edca0cf241945fe71629def9df2
> should work (because 1.4.8p10+dfsg-3+exp3 is higher than a potential
> +deb9u1).
> 
> Kurt, what do you think?

I'm suprised that it was in jessie, if it was it was clearly not
intentional. But if it's in jessie, we should probably add it to
stretch and then have buster do the needed replace/breaks/conflict.


Kurt