Ticket #1595 (new defect)
Opened 7 years ago
debathena-kerberos-config shouldn’t require ntp when systemd-timesyncd is installed
Reported by: | bbaren | Owned by: | bbaren |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | The Distant Future |
Component: | -- | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Fixed in version: | ||
Upstream bug: |
Description
debathena-kerberos-config Depends on time-daemon as a proxy for “This host has correctly configured time so the Kerberos handshake works”. systemd currently comes with systemd-timesyncd, which satisfies that requirement, but systemd doesn’t Provide time-daemon. As a result, installing debathena-kerberos-config on a fresh Debian installation will unnecessarily pull in ntp instead of just relying on systemd-timesyncd.
The correct solution here is to have systemd Provide time-daemon, but that causes other problems. I suspect the Debian folks would prefer for us just to introduce systemd as an alternative to ntp/ntpdate.