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[Steve Riley <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Probably like the rest of you, I stumbled across this bug when I was
looking for a way to remove ntpdate from my system because I'm using
ntp, and I don't want the meta package to go away. Here's a workaround.

1. Install the package equivs. This is a simple tool to create trivial
Debian packages.

2. Create the configuration file for the ntpdate dummy package:
|        $ equivs-control ntpdate-dummy

3. Open ntpdate-dummy in your favorite editor and make these changes:
|        Package: ntpdate-dummy
|        Version: 9.9
|        Provides: ntpdate
|        Description: Fake ntpdate; see Launchpad bug 61619

4. Now build the ntpdate dummy package:
|        $ equivs-build ntpdate-dummy

5. Install it:
|        $ sudo dpkg -i ntpdate-dummy_9.9_all.deb

6. Remove ntpdate:
|        $ sudo apt-get purge ntpdate

(Inspiration: comment #16 in bug 556372)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/61619

Title:
  ntpdate in -minimal should have an alternative

Status in “ntp” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
   Hi!

  I think we might want to choose ntp-simple in some situations instead
  of ntpdate. Could we have that as an alternative Dependency?

  Cheers, /C

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