Package: libc6 Version: 2.1.3-10 Severity: normal tzconfig doesn't allow choices that are substrings of other valid choices that are in the same category. i was told that this was fixed by removing an ambiguity between Pacific and Pacific-new, but there's still problems in the Posix and SystemV ones, which i assume can't be modified in themselves due to standards or historical reasons. The problems i ran into were that posix/EST and SystemV/EST5 weren't being set because of an ambiguity with EST5EDT in the same respective category. this should be easy to fix by adding a check to see if the typed string is a full valid choice BEFORE checking for ambiguity.
Example -------- Number: 11 # as in choice 11 from the menu, SystemV style time zones AST4 AST4ADT CST6 CST6CDT EST5 EST5EDT HST10 MST7 MST7MDT PST8 PST8PDT YST9 YST9YDT Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones You just need to type enough letters to resolve ambiguities Press Enter to view all of them again Name: [] EST5 EST5 EST5EDT Please enter the name of one of these cities or zones You just need to type enough letters to resolve ambiguities Press Enter to view all of them again Name: [EST5] EST5 (pressing EST5 several times resulted in the same message) Name: [EST5] argh!^C ------ end of example My solution was to manually relink /etc/localtime and re-edit /etc/timezone but this should still be fixed. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
