Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

[Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de>]

Hi, 

On Tue Sep 25, 2007 at 14:55:47 +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> Ah... Do you mean this mail?
> 
> > am I missing something completely here?
> >
> > mzh@dirac:~/debian/packages$ diff -rNu libdatetime-timezone-perl-0.42-before-dv/ > libdatetime-timezone-perl-0.42 | diffstat
> >  changelog                            |    9
> >  control                              |    4
> >  packages                             |    2
> >  patches/001-AKST9AKDT_timezone.patch |   11
> >  patches/010-tzdata2007g.patch        |38814 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  patches/012-tzdata2007g-tests.patch  |   21
> >  patches/020-AKST9AKDT_timezone.patch |   11
> >  rules                                |    4
> >  update-tzdata.sh                     |   30
> >  9 files changed, 38890 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> What is your question exactly? Do you mean, the patch is too large or
> what? Can you clarify, what do you really want to ask?
> 
> The package is perfectly correct and the only difference is updated
> timezone database plus the shell script debian/update-tzdata.sh which
> I used for updating plus updated test units for new database.

I don't understand why there is a patch of 38k lines needed to fix ONE
SINGE timezone.

Greetings
Martin

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