On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:35:24PM +0100, Hervé Eychenne wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:26:32PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 06:22:11PM +0100, Hervé Eychenne wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:47:14AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > Anyway, just wait a bit and it'll be fine, or download the older version > > > > of locales by hand. It's not difficult. > > > > > > While waiting or downgrading is an option, I simply insist on the fact > > > that this problem shouldn't issue _at all_, and that it should be > > > fixed by preventing this from happening. > > > If you don't want this to happen, use testing rather than unstable. It's > > designed to insulate you from (most of) these kinds of problems. > > Always the same answer... Instead of telling "use at your own risk", > shouldn't we simply try to solve known problems? > > There are some good reasons I'm forced to run Debian unstable, believe > me. Why should I (and potentially many others) be annoyed by things > that seem to be easily be avoidable with a little more fine-grained > handling?
Because that dependency has repeatedly been demonstrated to be necessary, and when we leave it out we get bug reports that people's locales don't work? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]