On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 12:54:44PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > I was trying to update some packages off of the unstable branch, > and noticed that required package "timezones" was selected for removal. > Upon setting it for installation, I was greeted with the > conflicts/dependancy screen (in dselect) wich stated that timezones > conflicted with libc6. However, libc6 is supposed to suggest timezones. > As dselect put it: > libc6 conflicts with timezones. > timezones depends on libc6. > > The result, libc6 was set to "remove" as were several hundred packages > with dependancies on it. > > I checked the bug reports on www.debian.org for timezones, and found > this problem listed in the "resolved" section, which leeds me > to believe that I am doing something wrong. > > So, all you slink->potato folks, what do I do?
Upgrade to the potato libc6, which includes timezones. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen