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[Rolf Leggewie <214801@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hardy has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any
updates. Marking the Hardy task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".

** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu Hardy)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  dapper -> hardy upgrade with purge removes ntp user

Status in “ntp” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “ntp” source package in Hardy:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ntp

  When upgrading from dapper to hardy, the old "ntp-simple" (and
  similar) packages get removed.  Should one also purge these packages
  (as I often do, since I don't like having "config cruft" lying around
  forever), the ntp user is removed.  The ntp user can be brought back
  by re-installing "ntp" after one purges the old packages, but that's
  less than intuitive.

  Ideally, rather than dropping the old packages wholesale, since their
  maintainer scripts currently contain code to remove the ntp user, they
  should be replaced with empty packages that have no such maintainer
  scripts, then dropped entirely after the Hardy LTS release.

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