Year 2000 status of debian
According to http://www.debian.org/y2k/ about half the packages in the base
Debian system are not known to be Year 2000 compliant. While I realise that
the probably are, I am having a very hard time trying to get a Debian
system installed due to it not being year 2000 compliant. (as compared to
Redhat (http://www.redhat.com/corp/legal_statement.html#y2k) - whose statement
is actually useless for knowing if the system will work in the year 2000, but
is better for getting the system past a 'Year 2000 compliant' new system
installation checklist item.
In particular it would be very useful if someone who understands dpkg and
the other debian specific bits could decide if they are y2k compliant and if
they are, then to arrange an update to the web page.
John Lines
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