ntpdate to openntpd

Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:28:17 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.hurd
Message-ID <CAPZXPQdzBtesve_1afiuOtUh3+wot-MSarv+Y_PXFpB=5P6HRw@mail.gmail.com>
Greetings,

While looking at dhcpcd Build-Depends, it occurred to me that
timesyncd essentially is an SNTP client that constantly runs in the
background. The only non-Linux equivalent in the Debian repository is
OpenNTPD.

Debian's OpenNTPD package is hopelessly outdated, but I filed a bug of
bug reports that document various fixes that would 1) overhaul the
packaging and 2) package the latest upstream.

As I'm still a mere DM, I cannot perform any QA NMU. Would anyone sponsor it?

Thanks!
Martin-Éric

PS: Mentors apparently is down, so I cannot upload the result there.