[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#892965: Bug#892966: Bug#892965: Bug#892966: ntpsec-ntpdate: unconditionally removes /var/lib/ntpdate on purge, even if ntpdate is installed

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Thu Mar 15 22:40:06 UTC 2018


On 03/15/2018 02:12 PM, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On the other hand, I think we're not using it anyway for ntpdate (I
> could only find it referenced in the dhcp hooks prior to
> f4abbe2168b452d25fb4311796c8930bcdc24bd9, pre-stretch, after that it has
> been migrated to /run to be flushed on reboot).

This change was merged into ntpsec-ntpdate prior to ntpsec_1.0.0-1, so
there was never a released version of ntpsec-ntpdate using
/var/lib/ntpdate at all. So clearly the right answer is for me to drop
this (which is the entirety of ntpsec-ntpdate.postrm). This solves both
bugs at once.

-- 
Richard



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