At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 19:23:40 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > We currently have two programs in base, tzconfig and tzsetup, that do > the same things. I thought I asked for this a long time ago, but I think > tzconfig should be removed from the distribution. If there is a lot of > documentation that refers to tzconfig, or a lot of users who expect it, > I would have no problem with renaming tzsetup to tzconfig. > > If you're not familiar with tzsetup, I wrote it because we needed a > program to be called from base-config using the debconf UI. It is based > on tzconfig and it walks through the same configuration as does > tzconfig, and if run with debconf's dialog frontend, it looks rather > like tzconfig. In addition, it has a -g switch which lets it set GMT. > Internally I belive that tzsetup is better, since it does not rely on a > hardcoded list for its top-level menu, and instead bases it on the > contents of /usr/share/zoneinfo. It also lets the user back up if they > pick the wrong menu item. > > It's just a waste of space and confusing to have two programs in the > base system that do the same thing. > > If you agree, you could close bug #182981, maybe #179837, and reassign > #122874 to base-config.
It looks really good. It is the future rock replacement. BTW, one problem is libc6.postinst invokes tzconfig. Should we remove tzconfig configuration code from libc6.postinst? Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
