[Git][NTPsec/ntpsec][master] Remove an incorrect assertion from devel/packagers.txt.

Eric S. Raymond gitlab at mg.gitlab.com
Sun Apr 23 18:19:35 UTC 2017


Eric S. Raymond pushed to branch master at NTPsec / ntpsec


Commits:
0ac50d59 by Eric S. Raymond at 2017-04-23T14:19:03-04:00
Remove an incorrect assertion from devel/packagers.txt.

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1 changed file:

- devel/packaging.txt


Changes:

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devel/packaging.txt
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--- a/devel/packaging.txt
+++ b/devel/packaging.txt
@@ -89,16 +89,5 @@ issues; so here the year derived from the BUILD_EPOCH is also used.  The
 alternative - trusting the system clock to report the right century -
 could produce very bad behavior near century boundaries.
 
-== Unpredictable leap seconds ==
-
-On first startup (that is, before it can fetch a leapsecond file)
-NTPsec also needs to make an assumption about UTC's offset from TAI.
-To do this it captures that offset at build time, again implying
-nonreproducibility of builds in the prsens of leap-offset bumps.
-
-Again, any attempt to change this would necessarily increase risks 
-by shortening the span over which an ntpd instance will speak correct
-UTC in the future.
-
 // end
 



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