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Bug#511153: tzsetup-udeb: time zone list in tzsetup out of date wrt glibc/tzdata time



Hi Christian,

Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (2009-01-08):
> Quoting Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl):
> > On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Jude Nagurney wrote:
> > > Please update tzsetup-udeb so it's aligned with the latest pkg-glibc
> > > time zone data.
> > 
> > Thanks for the heads-up.
> > 
> > As this also requires translation updates for the added time zones this is 
> > not something that can quickly be done in time for Lenny.
> 
> I check current translations, just in case, but several of them use
> transliterated text, for instance:
> 
> ru.po:msgid "East Indiana"
> ru.po-msgstr "Восточная Индиана"
> 
> So these translators also might want to transliterate the city names
> in the new "time zones"....and we just can't put msgid's in msgstr's
> 
> At the minimum, if we add new timezones, we could grab translations
> back from tzdata (there are quite a lot of translations in that package).
> 
> Definitely something for post-lenny, indeed...sorry for the few
> counties in USA that decide to live differently from the rest of the
> country.
> 
> Actually, there might me other cases like this one as I haven't seen
> anyone actively trying to cope with changes in tzdata to align tzsetup
> with them (such as the recent nightmare in Argentinian timezones).

what should we do about this bug report?

Mraw,
KiBi.

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