-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
> While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered > several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as > separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if > they should be reported as bugs. > > Timezone: > Version 7.48-3 of timezone was installed and timezones version > 2.0.5c-0.1 was selected for installation. timezones replaces and > conflicts with timezone. However, dselect reported: > > "dpkg: regarding .../base/timezones_2.0.5c-0.1.deb containing > timezones: > timezones conflicts with timezone > timezone (version 7.48-3) is installed. > dpkg: error processing /debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/base\ > /timezones_2.0.5c-0.1.deb (--install): > conflicting packages - not installing timezones > > Is this correct behavior on the part of dpkg? It should be > possible to upgrade, even if the package name is changed, without > having to use --force. I'm not sure, but maybe the old timezone is "required" and dpkg does not want to remove it (?). In such case, timezones should *provide* timezone, and maybe that way dpkg would be able to replace timezone by timezones. I would report this as a bug. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3i Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNJ/pdiqK7IlOjMLFAQGATQQAi/c0nhTmLOksNaLHFpOnxiBZd/GnKWJ2 lJR7dd2932iiPEUFzhXK38n0uOkR2wWfC+BCAKM0/eRi2MOsRK4rJg2KP9yeEpaP HRn1hjs6k9+KMhBmth0t0cI3xArnZICAzMQMkBKCMO3J6UnBd+Zzoy/kaa6bpqHY EQhQI9tzQiw= =/FS7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
