On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:25:52AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote: >At Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:34:07 -0500, >Joey Hess wrote: >> Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > * Some packages need to have a -common or -doc package split out to >> > contain this common data, and the existing packages that need this >> > data should then be altered to depend on the new -common or -doc >> > package. >> >> If you give in to this bug report, please excersise sanity and do not >> name the resulting package libc6-common. One genuinely useful split >> would be to move the zoneinfo data (5.4 mb) to its own package, as that >> is not needed on many small dedicated servers. There is an existing bug >> asking for that. > >I don't think spliting zoneinfo is useful. > >(1) If zoneinfo is set as "required", then at last we need to install > libc6 and zoneinfo on general machine. > >(2) I think even on many small dedicated servers, they need to handle > "time". And if such servers has no need to care for "time", the > package system is even meaningless on them. > >So I would like to reject it. Any comments? No problem here. The zone info is actually quite small (compressed) within the .deb, not really big enough to warrant the split I was (mistakenly) asking for. Sorry for bothering you and thanks for looking into this. Joey, where is the existing bug asking for the split? I can't find it in a quick check through the BTS... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com Is there anybody out there?
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