Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.2-4 Severity: normal We currently have two programs in base, tzconfig and tzsetup, that do the same things. I thought I asked for this a long time ago, but I think tzconfig should be removed from the distribution. If there is a lot of documentation that refers to tzconfig, or a lot of users who expect it, I would have no problem with renaming tzsetup to tzconfig. If you're not familiar with tzsetup, I wrote it because we needed a program to be called from base-config using the debconf UI. It is based on tzconfig and it walks through the same configuration as does tzconfig, and if run with debconf's dialog frontend, it looks rather like tzconfig. In addition, it has a -g switch which lets it set GMT. Internally I belive that tzsetup is better, since it does not rely on a hardcoded list for its top-level menu, and instead bases it on the contents of /usr/share/zoneinfo. It also lets the user back up if they pick the wrong menu item. It's just a waste of space and confusing to have two programs in the base system that do the same thing. If you agree, you could close bug #182981, maybe #179837, and reassign #122874 to base-config. -- see shy jo
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