Re: timzones and libc6 in the unstable branch
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 12:54:44PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote:
> I was trying to update some packages off of the unstable branch,
> and noticed that required package "timezones" was selected for removal.
> Upon setting it for installation, I was greeted with the
> conflicts/dependancy screen (in dselect) wich stated that timezones
> conflicted with libc6. However, libc6 is supposed to suggest timezones.
> As dselect put it:
> libc6 conflicts with timezones.
> timezones depends on libc6.
>
> The result, libc6 was set to "remove" as were several hundred packages
> with dependancies on it.
>
> I checked the bug reports on www.debian.org for timezones, and found
> this problem listed in the "resolved" section, which leeds me
> to believe that I am doing something wrong.
>
> So, all you slink->potato folks, what do I do?
Upgrade to the potato libc6, which includes timezones.
Bob
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