timezone -> timezones (why?)
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[ moving to debian-devel, from debian-bugs-dist ]
Summary: I think timezones package should be renamed back to "timezone"
(i.e. timezone package should *not* change his name from bo to hamm)
while Dale Scheetz does not agree.
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> David chose to rename both timezone and locale because of a version number
> setback. The libc6 versions of the packages carry the version number of
> libc6, which is less than the version numbers of the old packages. Without
> renaming the packages, they would represent a downgrade of these packages,
> raising difficulties for their "upgrading".
>
> Epochs are supposed to deal with these kinds of problems but both David
> and myself are not comfortable with this "functionality", as it hasn't
> worked as expected, so far.
Could you please elaborate on "not work as expected"? If you think epochs
do not work, file a bug report. They work for me, and they should also
work for you. The current dpkg in bo and hamm *supports* epochs.
But a change in the package name is currently gratuitous. It creates more
problem that it solves.
Is the usage of epochs the only "problem"?
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