Bug#606107: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

2010-12-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 01:48:37PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:02:28PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:46:31PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > Can't system-tools-backends clean up the file that it had erroneously > > > placed? > > > > It wo

Bug#606107: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

2010-12-11 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 10:02:28PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:46:31PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > > Can't system-tools-backends clean up the file that it had erroneously > > placed? > > It would have to be done in a system-tools-backends maintainer script. >

Bug#606107: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2010-12-09 at 17:55 +, Colin Watson wrote: > I have no idea whether system-tools-backends is the only thing that > might create an empty /etc/ntp.conf. I don't see how you can have any > idea of that either? Well, if you want to account for that, then almost every package will have to

Bug#606107: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

2010-12-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 07:29:11PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On ons, 2010-12-08 at 22:02 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > It would have to be done in a system-tools-backends maintainer script. > > I'm not really sure why it's any better to do that in > > system-tools-backends vs. in ntp; > >

Bug#606107: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

2010-12-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-12-08 at 22:02 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > Can't system-tools-backends clean up the file that it had > erroneously > > placed? > > It would have to be done in a system-tools-backends maintainer script. > I'm not really sure why it's any better to do that in > system-tools-backends

Bug#606107: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

2010-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:46:31PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On ons, 2010-12-08 at 13:40 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I don't really agree with these changes. An empty ntp.conf is an error > > > and should not be masked. > > > > What useful information can this state possibly convey? >

Bug#606107: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

2010-12-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-12-08 at 13:40 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I don't really agree with these changes. An empty ntp.conf is an error > > and should not be masked. > > What useful information can this state possibly convey? That state that something is broken. > > Why not just fix the GNOME side an

Bug#606107: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

2010-12-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 09:31:32PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On mån, 2010-12-06 at 12:35 +, Colin Watson wrote: > > I entirely agree that this should be fixed in system-tools-backends, > > and I've sent a patch upstream (I'll copy this to the Debian bug > > shortly too). However, there

Bug#606107: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

2010-12-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2010-12-06 at 12:35 +, Colin Watson wrote: > I entirely agree that this should be fixed in system-tools-backends, > and I've sent a patch upstream (I'll copy this to the Debian bug > shortly too). However, there are a couple of fairly unintrusive > things that could be changed in ntp t

Bug#606107: ntp: handle empty ntp.conf gracefully (working around system-tools-backends bug)

2010-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.6.p2+dfsg-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch natty (This bug was originally https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/83604.) Bug #397648 means that pressing the "Synchronise now" button (usually rendered with