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

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 07:48:11PM -0500, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> >      This is the case in bo.  However, in rex:
> > 
> >           Package: timezone
> >           Essential: yes
> >           Priority: required
> >           Section: base
> >           Maintainer: Fernando Alegre <alegre@mars.superlink.net>
> >           Architecture: i386
> >           Version: 7.48-3
> > 
> >      Some of the reported timnezone upgrade problems were in upgrades
> > from rex.
> 
> Now that you mention it, my test buzz->hamm upgrade system had
> problems with timezone(s) too.
> 
If you upgrade to bo's timezone package first then the hamm upgrade will
work.
On the other hand, making timezones essential would fix the problem. I am
reticent to do this, as the bo timezone is not essential. 
Timezone when from Essential=yes in buzz and rex, to not being essential
in bo. If I make timezones essential for the release, and then set it back
to non-essential later, we will run up against this same problem later?

Is there any reason (not related to this issue of "essential") that
timezones should, or should not, be marked essential?

Waiting is,

Dwarf
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