Bug#838031: task-laptop: Add 'ntp' to list of recommended packages.

2016-09-29 Thread Nathaniel Beaver
By default, machines running Debian Jessie will still be susceptible to drifting clocks because Jessie's version of systemd is 215-17+deb8u5, which is behind 219-1. I have confirmed the clock drift (1 second slow) and also the fix on a vanilla Jessie VM. $ timedatectl status | grep NTP

Bug#838031: task-laptop: Add 'ntp' to list of recommended packages.

2016-09-16 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 08:55:19PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > 16.09.2016 20:51, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >We should install a minimal NTP client by default. Not ntp, it's far > >more complex than needed and (partly as a result of that) has a poor > >security record. > > Systemd comes with

Bug#838031: task-laptop: Add 'ntp' to list of recommended packages.

2016-09-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 08:55:19PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Systemd comes with systemd-timesyncd these days, JFYI. Well that's sntp not ntp, so not really the same thing. I guess for a laptop you might find it good enough. -- Len Sorensen

Bug#838031: task-laptop: Add 'ntp' to list of recommended packages.

2016-09-16 Thread Vincent Blut
On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 20:55:19 +0300 Michael Tokarev wrote: > 16.09.2016 20:51, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > We should install a minimal NTP client by default. Not ntp, it's far > > more complex than needed and (partly as a result of that) has a poor > > security record. > >

Bug#838031: task-laptop: Add 'ntp' to list of recommended packages.

2016-09-16 Thread Michael Tokarev
16.09.2016 20:51, Ben Hutchings wrote: We should install a minimal NTP client by default. Not ntp, it's far more complex than needed and (partly as a result of that) has a poor security record. Systemd comes with systemd-timesyncd these days, JFYI. Thanks, /mjt Ben.

Bug#838031: task-laptop: Add 'ntp' to list of recommended packages.

2016-09-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 11:27 -0500, Nathaniel Beaver wrote: > Package: task-laptop > Version: 3.31+deb8u1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > When I didn't have 'ntp' installed on my laptop, I found that the clock  > drifted significantly from the true time. (It was almost four minutes 

Bug#838031: task-laptop: Add 'ntp' to list of recommended packages.

2016-09-16 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:27:21AM -0500, Nathaniel Beaver wrote: > Package: task-laptop > Version: 3.31+deb8u1 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hi, > > When I didn't have 'ntp' installed on my laptop, I found that the clock > drifted significantly from the true time. (It was almost four

Bug#838031: task-laptop: Add 'ntp' to list of recommended packages.

2016-09-16 Thread Nathaniel Beaver
Package: task-laptop Version: 3.31+deb8u1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi, When I didn't have 'ntp' installed on my laptop, I found that the clock drifted significantly from the true time. (It was almost four minutes fast when I noticed it last fall!) To help other Debian users avoid