Re: tar conflicts with cpio
On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 15:30, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> > What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by
> > extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between
> > cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least
> > complementary. Why do they now conflict?
> >
>
> from the changelog
> * start having tar provide rmt, which means conflicting with and replacing
> cpio versions prior to the cutover, closes: #94257, #90794
> * make medium urgency, since we really want this and the associated cpio
> upload to both be in woody!
Ah thanks. So this is just transient. I really should get used to
checking the changelogs instead of just the bugpages.
-jwb
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