On Fri, 2001-11-23 at 15:30, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > What's the story with tar? The new package conflicts with cpio, and by > > extension much of GNOME. I'm not aware of inherent conflicts between > > cpio and tar: in my experience they are orthogonal or at least > > complementary. Why do they now conflict? > > > > from the changelog > * start having tar provide rmt, which means conflicting with and replacing > cpio versions prior to the cutover, closes: #94257, #90794 > * make medium urgency, since we really want this and the associated cpio > upload to both be in woody!
Ah thanks. So this is just transient. I really should get used to checking the changelogs instead of just the bugpages. -jwb
