NTS doesn't work with 1.1.8 shipped with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

[Hal Murray]

Ubuntu ships 1.1.8 with 20.04 LTS.  NTS doesn't quite work.

1.1.8 was released before the RFC came out.  There were a couple of late 
changes.  The port number we can fix in the config file.  There was an 
incompatable change to the string used to make keys.  There is no easy fix for 
that.

We could hack our NTS-KE server to also listen on another port and use the old 
string on that port.  Aside from being an ugly hack, it only works for our 
servers.  (and nts.ntp.se which already does something like that)

Can anybody give me a lesson in Ubuntu release procedures?

Are they likely to be interested in fixing this?  (so NTS works)

The fix to 1.1.8 is a simple change to a text literal.  Can they fix their 
copy of the source if we send a patch file?  Would it help if we released a 
patched version of 1.1.8?  ...

Could we convince them to update to Debian's 1.2.0+xx?  (or our 1.2.0, or 
1.2.1 our current release)

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Long story here:
  Incompatibility between NTS in ntpsec 1.2.1 and 1.1.8?
  https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/-/issues/732


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