[2018-07-19 23:47] Richard Laager <rlaa...@wiktel.com> > On 07/14/2018 08:34 PM, Richard Laager wrote: > > Purging ntp after installing ntpsec seems to be fairly common with > > users. Accordingly, I'm raising the severity of this bug to important. > > My current intention is to rename the service from ntp.service to > ntpsec.service. Accordingly, I'm undoing my severity change here.
For what it worth, you may be interested virtual facilities (/etc/insserv.conf). We could introduce new virtual dependency $ntp, provided by either ntp or ntpsec package.