On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Yann Dirson wrote: > Scott K. Ellis writes: > > BTW, is there a particular reason that e2fsprogs got renamed to > > e2fsprogsg? This seems to be the biggest chance to completely screw over > > someone's system in all of Debian now. > > Yes: e2fsprogs used to contain shared libs, on which dump and quota > depend. Thus, e2fsprogs was assumed to be a package with libc5 libs, > and I could not keep the name, without breaking dump and quota on a > hamm upgrade. > > I thought that, e2fsprogsg being essential, would be flaged for > installation as soon as it appears in the available packages. Is this > not the case ?
Nope, didn't seem to be flagged for install on my end. I would have suggested keeping the same name and conflicting with the versions of dump and quota that would have depended on the libraries. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
