Re: A better miscutils
On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> You (Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca) wrote:
> > Excellent! Feel free to add
> > Conflicts: last
> > or whatever needed to de-install last. Feel free to (re-)use the last manpage
> > I scribbled from the .info material.
>
> Oh, it already has a manpage. But the Conflicts: line is a good
> idea (though it will confuse a few people). Or is there a better way?
There's a better way - look in dpkg-disappear-replace.txt. It details
how obsolete base packages can disappear.
I'm maintaining the chfn package, Mike, so I'd still be maintaing
loginutils. I already have a chfn which should work fine with NIS.
I have no problem with taking last out of the loginutils. I only put
it in there to group all the wtmp stuff together. In fact, apart from
last, I'm the only one affected by this change. I merely took the 2
packages I'm maintaining, chfn and miscutils, and turned them into 3
package I'll maintain, loginutils, fsutils, and miscutils.
Guy
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