Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11
On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 10:42:31AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> That said, I notice you have ntp installed. Does that mean that
> you're keeping your time synchronised with ntp and, if so, what
> do you do about systemd-timesyncd, which I understand is enabled
> by default since several Debian versions ago.
If an NTP package is installed, systemd-timesyncd is not used. It
just never starts.
On my system, it's not even installed.
After digging around a bit, I think Debian has changed something on me,
which I didn't notice until now.
In older versions of Debian, systemd-timesyncd and ntp (or chrony, etc.)
would coexist. systemd-timesyncd.service was configured so that the
daemon wouldn't be started if any of the other NTP daemons existed on
the system.
I can no longer see that in the systemd-timesyncd.service file (which
I'm viewing as
<https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/blob/debian/master/units/systemd-timesyncd.service.in>
because it's not on my system).
Instead, the ntp and systemd-timesyncd *packages* now appear to have
Provides: time-daemon
which might make them mutually exclusive.
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