Bug#56138: timezones: Package conflict between libc6 and timezones
James Stricherz <stricher@stat.fsu.edu> wrote:
> Package: timezones
> Version: N/A
> Severity: important
>
> I'm going to give it a level 2 error rating, but it is kind of amusing.
> I *was* wondering why my clock was suddenly on GMT...but here it is,
> straight from dselect:
>
> libc6 conflicts with timezones
> timezones depends on libc6
>
> That's funny. Thanks in advance,
>
> James
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: potato
> Kernel Version: Linux aggie 2.2.10 #22 Mon Dec 20 15:18:06 EST 1999 i686 unknown
I think that timezones package has been merged into libc6 package in potato,
with glibc2.0 -> glibc2.1 migration.
# apt-cache show libc6
Package: libc6
Version: 2.1.2-11
Conflicts: libc5 (<< 5.4.33-7), libpthread0 (<< 0.7-10), libstdc++2.8 (= 2.90.29-1), libstdc++2.9 (<< 2.91.59-2), timezone, timezones, libwcsmbs, libc6-doc, libtricks, apt (<< 0.3.0), libglib1.2 (<< 1.2.1-2)
Replaces: libc6-dev (<< 2.0.110-1), locales (<< 2.1.1-1)
Description: GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on
the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library
and the standard math library, as well as many others.
Timezone data is also included.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The reason why the clock is set to GMT may be different.
Probably it is in /etc/default/rcS. In slink, this file has
# Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT="" if not.
GMT=""
lines, but potato has different lines.
# Set UTC to yes or no
UTC=no
I presume this is the case.
Anyway, this bug report can be closed safely, because the reporter uses potato,
and there is no timezones package in potato.
One more point. I think this transition (timezones merged into libc6) should
be noted also on Release Note for potato. So I sent this mail to Josip, too.
--
Taketoshi Sano: <sano@debian.org>,<sano@debian.or.jp>,<kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
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