Source: ntp Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian NTP Team Uploaders: Bdale Garbee , Peter Eisentraut , Kurt Roeckx Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.2.12), libreadline5-dev, libcap-dev | not+linux-gnu, libssl-dev (>= 0.9), quilt (>= 0.40) Standards-Version: 3.7.3 Homepage: http://ntp.isc.org/ XS-Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ntp/ntp/ XS-Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-ntp/ntp/ Package: ntp Architecture: any Depends: adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-3), netbase, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Recommends: ${perl:Depends} Suggests: ntp-doc Replaces: logcheck-database, ntp-server, ntp-simple (<= 1:4.2.0a+stable-9), ntp-refclock (<= 1:4.2.0a+stable-9) Conflicts: ntp-server, ntp-simple (<= 1:4.2.0a+stable-9), ntp-refclock (<= 1:4.2.0a+stable-9) Provides: ntp-server Description: Network Time Protocol daemon and utility programs NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep computer clocks accurate by synchronizing them over the Internet or a local network, or by following an accurate hardware receiver that interprets GPS, DCF-77, NIST or similar time signals. . This package contains the NTP daemon and utility programs. An NTP daemon needs to be running on each host that is to have its clock accuracy controlled by NTP. The same NTP daemon is also used to provide NTP service to other hosts. . For more information about the NTP protocol and NTP server configuration and operation, install the package "ntp-doc". Package: ntpdate Architecture: any Depends: netbase, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: client for setting system time from NTP servers NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep computer clocks accurate by synchronizing them over the Internet or a local network, or by following an accurate hardware receiver that interprets GPS, DCF-77, NIST or similar time signals. . ntpdate is a simple NTP client that sets a system's clock to match the time obtained by communicating with one or more NTP servers. It is not sufficient, however, for maintaining an accurate clock in the long run. ntpdate by itself is useful for occasionally setting the time on machines that do not have full-time network access, such as laptops. . If the full NTP daemon from the package "ntp" is installed, then ntpdate is not necessary. Package: ntp-doc Architecture: all Section: doc Description: Network Time Protocol documentation NTP, the Network Time Protocol, is used to keep computer clocks accurate by synchronizing them over the Internet or a local network, or by following an accurate hardware receiver that interprets GPS, DCF-77, NIST or similar time signals. . This package contains HTML documentation for the ntp packages (ntp, ntpdate). Since there are no substantive man pages for ntp's programs and configuration files, this package is desirable for any setup beyond the simple default configuration.