On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 07:14:37AM +0200, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > ntp and ntpdate were replaced by ntpsec and ntpsec-ntpdate respectively, > > although ntpdate has never been recommended for regular > > clock.synchronisation, > > and I believe systemd-timesyncd is not great either. Chrony is apparently a > > good > > alternative, although I haven't tried it myself. There is also a > > "time-daemon" > > virtual package. Something like > > > > Suggests: ntpsec | chrony | time-daemon > > Why not only time-daemon?
Because there's no such package. root@697b0e0c2b53:~# apt install time-daemon Package time-daemon is a virtual package provided by: systemd-timesyncd 258.1-1 openntpd 1:6.2p3-4.2+b2 ntpsec 1.2.3+dfsg1-8 chrony 4.8-2 You should explicitly select one to install. Error: Package 'time-daemon' has no installation candidate
