Why is netstd a "legacy pkg you should remove"?

[simonst@WellsFargo.COM]

Thanks to all who answered my question about locating packages -  I've been
happily searching www.debian.org for 'missing' stuff.

One question - the description for the netstd 3.07-17 package containing
"netdate"
says: "Legacy package that you should remove." 

Does any one know why?  I use netdate to sync time-of-day with an MVS
port-37 timeserver program, and I'd hate to have to change it to handle
ntpdate.  Or is there another replacement for netdate/ntpdate?

-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Myers [mailto:ncm@cantrip.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 5:56 PM
To: bad@kitenet.net
Subject: Re: which pkg contains a command?


On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 05:10:28PM -0700, simonst@wellsfargo.com wrote:
> I can't remember how to find out which package I need to install to pick
up
> a favorite command.
> I'm looking (this time) for nslookup, lpr/lpd/lpq & netdate.

$ man dpkg
...
$ dpkg -S netdate nslookup lpr
...
netstd: /usr/sbin/netdate
...
dnsutils: /usr/bin/nslookup
...
lpr: /usr/bin/lpr

You can also search on http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages ,
but it doesn't find (e.g.) netdate.

Nathan Myers
ncm at cantrip dot org



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