Package: freeipa-client Version: 4.11.1-2 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, As we're upgrading our Ubuntu Server 22.04 machines to 24.04 we immediately stumbled upon this problem - the freeipa-client package is now conflicting with systemd-timesyncd, which is installed by default on Ubuntu Server, and is our NTP client of choice. We use timesyncd specifically because it properly supports DHCP Option 42, something chrony does not support, but we also feel like its utility provides a much better user experience. We're using freeipa-client without NTP (as in we're using the "-N" flag upon installation with the ipa-client-install tool). This has worked for us for years, but as of freeipa-client 4.9.11-1 (or earlier) a conflicts flag was added to the package. This does not make sense for several reasons: - freeipa-client package does not depend on any NTP client package, it only _recommends_ chrony. - ipa-client-install does not require an NTP client to run, and as a user you can be explicit about this (set the "-N" flag). - if the user installs freeipa-client without recommendations they are left without an NTP client on their system, even though one is provided by the system (e.g. Ubuntu Server comes with systemd-timesyncd by default). - the chrony package has a conflicts field with "time-daemon", which systemd-timesyncd is a part of, thus making this conflicts field unneccesary in the first place. Please consider reverting this change. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers noble-updates APT policy: (500, 'noble-updates'), (500, 'noble-security'), (500, 'noble'), (100, 'noble-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-31-generic (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages freeipa-client depends on: ii bind9-dnsutils [dnsutils] 1:9.18.24-0ubuntu5 pn bind9-utils <none> pn certmonger <none> ii curl 8.5.0-2ubuntu10.1 pn freeipa-common <none> pn krb5-user <none> ii libc6 2.39-0ubuntu8.1 ii libcom-err2 1.47.0-2.4~exp1ubuntu4 ii libcurl4t64 8.5.0-2ubuntu10.1 pn libini-config5t64 <none> ii libjansson4 2.14-2build2 ii libk5crypto3 1.20.1-6ubuntu2 ii libkrb5-3 1.20.1-6ubuntu2 ii libldap2 2.6.7+dfsg-1~exp1ubuntu8 pn libnss-sss <none> pn libnss3-tools <none> pn libpam-sss <none> ii libpopt0 1.19+dfsg-1build1 pn libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit <none> ii libssl3t64 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.1 pn libsss-sudo <none> pn oddjob-mkhomedir <none> ii python3 3.12.3-0ubuntu1 pn python3-dnspython <none> pn python3-gssapi <none> pn python3-ipaclient <none> pn python3-ldap <none> pn python3-sss <none> pn sssd <none> Versions of packages freeipa-client recommends: pn chrony <none> pn sssd-passkey <none> Versions of packages freeipa-client suggests: pn libpam-krb5 <none>
