Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?
- To: Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au>
- Cc: Lionel Elie Mamane <lmamane@debian.org>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-glibc@lists.debian.org, debian-volatile@lists.debian.org, gotom@debian.org
- Subject: Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?
- From: Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>
- Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:13:07 +0100
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* Anand Kumria (wildfire@progsoc.uts.edu.au) [060207 04:34]:
> I also think volatile is precisely the wrong place to put this kind of
> data -- it isn't part of the default apt.sources for one thing; and it
> places an extra burden on the maintainer(s) (who know have to track
> three different upgrade paths, etc.).
Only because you have a prejudice against volatile doesn't mean its the
wrong place. Volatile is rather the exactly right place for this kind of
update.
Cheers,
Andi
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http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/
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