Dear maintainer / uploader,
just a friendly ping in case you didn't see this bug report. Also I've
seen that you changed the Recommends from ntp to ntpsec in Apr 2022. Any
reason to prefer this package over whatever other package that
"Provides: time-daemon"?
Thanks,
Arnaud
On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 14:13:52 +0700 Arnaud Rebillout <arna...@kali.org>
wrote:
> Source: netsniff-ng
> Version: 0.6.8-2
> Severity: normal
> User: de...@kali.org
> Usertags: origin-kali
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I've seen that netsniff-ng recommends the package ntp. Is it because it
> needs to be sure that the system time is accurate? In that case, would
> it be better to recommend the virtual package time-daemon instead?
>
> $ grep-aptavail -F Provides "time-daemon" | grep ^Package:
> Package: chrony
> Package: linuxptp
> Package: ntp
> Package: ntpsec
> Package: openntpd
> Package: systemd-timesyncd
>
> $ cd /usr/share/doc/debian-policy
> $ zgrep 'name: time-daemon' virtual-package-names-list.yaml.gz -A1
> - name: time-daemon
> description: anything that serves as a time daemon
>
> Please note that I don't know what netsniff-ng is or what it does. I was
> just working of building OS images for Kali (a Debian derivative), and I
> was wondering why some images came with ntp installed, and other images
> came with systemd-timesyncd instead. I found out that it's netsniff-ng
> that forces the installation of ntp and prevents systemd-timesyncd to be
> installed.
>
> I think it would be better if the package just recommended time-daemon
> without requiring a particular implementation (ntp in this case). But
> once again, I'm not familiar with netsniff-ng and I don't want to break
> anything!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Arnaud
>
>
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Arnaud Rebillout / Offensive Security / Kali Linux Developer
