Re: What's Debian's /usr/src policy

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On 18 Jan 1998, Guy Maor wrote:

> eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin) writes:
> 
> > This is one of the reasons I think we really need a fix to dpkg so
> > that the timezone/timezones upgrade can be handled without --force.
> 
> That can be fixed by simply making timezones essential.
> 
As the new maintainer of the glibc package (which seems to contain
timezones, as well as libc6) I'm a bit confused. 

First, the timezones package both replaces and conflicts with timezone.
This should allow it to cleanly remove timezone and install timezones. I
just used this to replace gmp with gmp2 (and gmp1) and it works fine in
that case. Why should timezones need --force-anything to install?

Second, Why would making timezones essential resolve the problem?

Waiting is,

Dwarf
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