Bug#210355: tzconfig vs tzsetup: both in base
At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:23:40 -0400,
Joey Hess wrote:
> 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.
It looks really good. It is the future rock replacement. BTW, one
problem is libc6.postinst invokes tzconfig. Should we remove tzconfig
configuration code from libc6.postinst?
Regards,
-- gotom
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