Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.8p12+dfsg-4 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Many embedded systems have no hardware real-time clock. Debian provides the fake-hwclock package to maintain reasonable time across reboots. However, this means that there will be a noticeable time skip after system startup, when NTP synchronizes the clock. This time skip may be very large if the system has been turned off for a long time. Systemd provides time-sync.target, which units like timers depend on to avoid being affected by such time skips. The ntp package provides an ntp-wait program that waits until NTP has synchronized the system clock. However, the ntp package does not install a systemd service to block the time-sync.target from starting until ntp-wait succeeds. Please install a service similar to these ones shipped by other NTP distributors: https://github.com/ntpsec/ntpsec/blob/master/etc/ntp-wait.service https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/ntp/blob/f25/f/ntp-wait.service https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file/openSUSE:Factory/ntp/conf.ntp-wait.service Thanks. -nandhp
