[needs-packaging] htpdate package request as alternative to ntpdate and rdate clients

[glenstewart]

While ntp may be a great protocol, I find it quite bloated and slow for the simple purpose of just setting a local date and time to a reference clock. I do not need 20ms accuracy on a notebook's clock :-).
Thus I use(d) rdate, but the public rdate servers are slowly dying out. So I'm replacing it more and more with htpdate which works quite nicely. It's written in C and a perl alternative is available on the author's site.

It's under the GPL license, and available at http://www.clevervest.com/foswiki/bin/view/HTP/WebHome and attached.

[glenstewart (glen-stewart)]

Sorry - the web page was an older version. The current version is at http://www.clevervest.com/twiki/bin/view/HTP/DownloadC

[Chris Crisafulli (itnet7)]

Thanks for submitting this in efforts to help imporive ubuntu. First things first, Ubuntu and Debain both already have a package called htp. Usually when someone would like to make changes to ubuntu they will take advantage of using brainstorm [http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com] submit this type of Idea and then have the community and developers vote on it. I would recommend that you do that in this case. I also thought it would be good to let you know that they have a more current "C" version that is more http://www.clevervest.com/htp/archive/c/htpdate_1.0.4_i386.deb .

[glenstewart (glen-stewart)]

To submit this packaging request, I followed the guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

If that guide is misleading, please correct it. It was last updated 2008-12-07

I obviously searched my own apt installation in Intrepid, and found neither htp nor htpdate available. I also searched at http://packages.ubuntu.com/ for Jaunty, and it's not listed there.

From all I see and the process I followed, this packaging request is valid.

[Chris Crisafulli (itnet7)]

Well first off, I misread what you wrote and thought you were wanting to change the default timekeeping program. After re-reading it, I see you would just like to have it packaged for you and others that might need it. My mistake and I apologize.

There actually is an htp package in ubuntu, but it has nothing to do with time. I am surprised with how thorough you are that you didn't notice.

rmadison htp
       htp | 1.15-3 | dapper/universe | source, amd64, i386, powerpc
       htp | 1.15-3 | gutsy/universe | source, amd64, i386, powerpc
       htp | 1.16-2 | hardy/universe | source, amd64, i386
       htp | 1.16-2 | intrepid/universe | source, amd64, i386
       htp | 1.16-2 | jaunty/universe | source, amd64, i386

http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/allpackages reveals:
htp (1.16-2) [universe] An HTML pre-processor

So I guess htpdate would be a better name.

i will confirm that this is a valid packaging request. Hopefully your request will be filled. In the future try to bear in mind that if one of your requests is marked invalid, it can easily be updated to a different status.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

[Liviu Andronic (landronimirc)]

I recently published binaries for htpdate on my Launchpad PPA. [1] . Is it possible to contribute them to the main Ubuntu repos?

[1] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/htpdate

[glenstewart (glen-stewart)]

Thank you!

On 01/17/2012 02:09 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> I recently published binaries for htpdate on my Launchpad PPA. [1] . Is
> it possible to contribute them to the main Ubuntu repos?
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/htpdate
>

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[marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra)]

Still need packaging in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal

[Liviu Andronic (landronimirc)]

Now the PPA [1] contains builds for Precise, Quantal and Raring.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/htpdate