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Hi,
packages have a set of defined usernames that are collision free among each other but as you encountered might collide with other things - especially if a username is rather short.
Commonly package names (ntp, mysql, ceph, ...) or package name plus suffix (libvirt-*, ...), are users used by the system.
While I agree that there could be added some code to support that, it is most likely error prone and unlikely to happen (quite some effort for very low gain).
That is especially true for ntp which is (in later releases) no more in main and a change like that would not be SRUable to older releases.
I'll set this to won't fix as I want to avoid people expecting this to happen.