Source: ntp Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian NTP Team Uploaders: Kurt Roeckx , Bernhard Schmidt Build-Depends: autogen, debhelper (>= 10), dh-apparmor, libcap2-dev [linux-any], libedit-dev, libevent-dev, libopts25-dev, libssl-dev, pkg-config, pps-tools [linux-any] Build-Conflicts: libavahi-compat-libdnssd-dev, libwww-dev, libwww-ssl-dev Standards-Version: 4.1.3.0 Rules-Requires-Root: no Homepage: http://support.ntp.org/ Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-ntp-team/ntp Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-ntp-team/ntp.git Package: ntp Architecture: any Depends: adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), netbase, tzdata, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Recommends: sntp, ${perl:Depends} Suggests: ntp-doc Breaks: apparmor-profiles-extra (<< 1.8) Replaces: apparmor-profiles-extra (<< 1.8) 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 (deprecated) 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 deprecated. Please use sntp instead for manual or scripted NTP queries/syncs. Package: ntp-doc Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends} Section: doc Multi-Arch: foreign 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. Package: sntp Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Breaks: ntp (<<1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-3+exp3) Replaces: ntp (<<1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-3+exp3) Description: Network Time Protocol - sntp client 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. . sntp can be used as an SNTP client to query a NTP or SNTP server and either display the time or set the local system's time. It is not sufficient, however, for maintaining an accurate clock in the long run.