Re: GNU libc

To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Cc: Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>, Fernando <alegre@saturn.superlink.net>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: GNU libc
From: David Engel <david@sw.ods.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 13:49:18 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 19970306134918.55916@sw.ods.com>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] x77mjkon84.fsf@sl-kb05.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>; from Ulrich Drepper on Mar 03, 1997 at 08:05:15PM +0100
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.970306195248.8650J-100000@odin.waw.com> <[🔎] x77mjkon84.fsf@sl-kb05.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>

On Mar 6, Ulrich Drepper wrote
> I don't know whether it makes sense to distribute this part of glibc
> in a separate package.  I don't think so but you'll know better.

It's in keeping with our packaging guidelines for two reasons.  First
the timezone file are not specific to libc6, they can also be used by
libc5 and even, shudder, libc4.  Second, even though it's not
recommended, it is possible to use libc6 without the timezone files.

David
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