On Tue, 8 Sep 2015, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
An incompatibility is that the ntpdc protocol no longer supports the monlist command and also that the protocol is disabled by default now. These changes make sense and most users won't care, but admins that have a monitoring system built around ntpdc will have to do something about it.
That's true, no matter how or when. Given the length of time that ntpdc has been on its way out, I'm having a hard time finding sympathy here -- and the fact that there are still people showing up on various NTP lists asking for help building something new that relies on ntpdc is evidence that "current" releases in use do not adequately reflect reality.
As a downstream maintainer I have to consider all these things. Updating to 4.2.8 in a new major OS relase is fine, but don't be surprised if a stable release of your favorite distro stays at 4.2.6p5.
Fair enough -- for something like RHEL 7 and derivatives, anyway. So why isn't 4.2.8 available in Fedora 22, 23, or rawhide?
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