Control: tag -1 confirmed On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 02:46:06PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > * Demote systemd-timesyncd from Depends to Recommends. > This avoids a dependency cycle between systemd and systemd-timesyncd and > thus makes dist upgrades more predictable and robust. > It also allows minimal, systemd based containers where no NTP client is > strictly necessary. > To ensure that systemd-timesyncd is installed in a default installation > created by d-i, bump its priority to standard. > (Closes: #986651, #993947) > > This one is probably the trickiest (and possibly also the simplest) > change. It simply breaks a dependency loop between systemd and > systemd-timesyncd resulting in a more predictable upgrade sequence which > in turn ensures that modifications of systemd-timesyncd's conffiles are > preserved on upgrades. > Difficult to predict the side effects this might have, but on the whole it's probably better to do this than not.
Go ahead. Cheers, Julien