NTP

Comment 4 for bug 2039252

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Jonathan Ferguson (jonathan-ferguson) wrote (last edit ):

I found the thread on the Debian Developers' Mailing List that Richard Laager (rlaager) mentioned. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/01/msg00172.html

I read through all of the replies in the aforementioned thread.

There is this devastating nugget that is not expounded upon and is the same crux I am bringing to the Ubuntu community's attention:
"Sounds good, I'd like to have a few more reviewers though. ntp is aged, but according to popcon the transition could affect ~25% of the Debian installations." https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2022/01/msg00211.html

I believe that it is critical that Ubuntu makes available the most feature complete standards complying NTP daemon. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5905

The present LTS, 22.04, has the original ntp package. To avert disaster for a substantial number of users, Ubuntu will need the original ntp package available when 24.04LTS is released.