Bug#493978: tzconfig compatibility script considered helpful

["Barak A. Pearlmutter" <barak@cs.nuim.ie>]

Package: tzdata
Version: 2008c-1
Severity: wishlist

To avoid user inconvenience (and panic) I'd suggest a compatibility
script,

 $ cat /usr/sbin/tzconfig

 #!/bin/sh
 echo "WARNING: the tzconfig command is deprecated, please convert to:"
 echo " dpkg-reconfigure tzdata"
 dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
 echo "WARNING: the tzconfig command is deprecated, please convert to:"
 echo " dpkg-reconfigure tzdata"

Justification: about a half dozen friends of mine who updated to lenny
asked me:  HELP!  WHAT HAPPENED TO TIME ZONES???  When you add it up,
having this script in the tzdata package would have saved at least a
half hour of my time explaining it them.  These were highly
sophisticated users; I can only imagine the tizzy less sophisticated
users would go into.  Totalled across all developers, this script
would save years of debian developer time!

					Cheers,

					--Barak.
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Barak A. Pearlmutter
 Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
 http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/