On 23-Nov-2001 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > 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. >
install apt-listchanges. Lets you read the changelogs BEFORE installing the downloads.
