Hi, On 17 Oct 2025 at 12:02:41, Roger Lynn wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:28:22 +0200 Carles Pina i Estany <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I see that the package dovecot-core (version 1:2.4.1+dfsg1-9) suggests > > ntp which is not in unstable. > > > > This can be seen in https://packages.debian.org/unstable/dovecot-core . > > Search for "Package not available". > > > > The missing package used to be in Debian but they were removed some time > > ago: > > > > - https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ntp > > > > Should it be dropped or changed? should it recommend some other way to > > keep the time? (systemd-timesyncd? ntpdate?) > > 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? > (Just another satisfied Dovecot and ntpsec user) I'm also a happy Dovecot user... and I was up to date (more or less) on NTP things long time ago... Cheers, -- Carles Pina i Estany https://carles.pina.cat | [email protected] | [email protected]
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