Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?
It is already such library called DateTime::TimeZone::Tzfile. It is
not packaged yet, but... It is different story. We still talk about
DateTime::TimeZone. Even if it should be replaced with newer, better
and faster libraray, it is ALREADY in etch and sarge.
The Debian supports the packages which do not really work for the full
time of a stable release. The Volatile archive keeps them functional.
The libdatetime-timezone-perl is one of such packages.
I explained what changed in this package, why the changes are
necessary and how I made this update. It perfectly fits to stable
policy. It is backward compatible and only data are changed. Of
course, the Perl code can also be a data, and this module is an
adequate example.
Users of my package would like to see the updated package which is
supported by Debian. One of them even tested it before I uploaded it
to Volatile incoming queue.
I don't understand what is the point? Why do you think this package
shouldn't go to Volatile? What do you propose as alternative?
2007/9/25, Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:48:19PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote:
> > It is almost impossible.
> >
> > The DateTime::TimeZone is pure Perl library and can't use binary data
> > from tzdata package. In fact, this library can be used on systems
> > without libc6 and tzdata at all! You wrongly assume that tzdata
> > package is more important than libdatetime-timezone-perl package. It
> > can be true only for glibc based systems.
> >
> > Even tzdata package is compiled from the source data - the same data
> > which is used for refreshing libdatetime-timezone-perl!
>
> That it can be used on other systems that don't have tzdata doesn't mean
> it shouldn't try and use tzdata if it's available on Debian.
>
> The binary data in the tzdata should be easy to parse. See
> man tzfile(5).
>
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