Re: timezone -> timezones (why?)
David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> writes:
> > So dpkg has to be fixed. We should encourage people to work on this
> > issue.
> >
> > In general: everything done by autoup should be implemented using
> > dpkg/dselect facilities. For the timezone case this seems to be
> > possible, I'm not sure about other cases.
>
> >From my understanding of the situation, it is impossible to guarantee
> that the necessary dpkg/dselect will be installed *before* the
> problematic packages.
>
> > If this requires dpkg changes the relevant packages have to pre-depend
> > on the appropriate dpkg version.
>
> It was my impression that even if we use pre-depends with all the hamm
> base packages (depending on some 'improved' dpkg), that we just can't
> guarantee things will go the way we want.
Can someone comment whether pre-depends will do everything we need?
Sven
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