python-tz and the timezone saga
Dear Colleagues
Some time ago (2017) I took responsibility for python-tz (now within the
python team).
This essentially wraps timezone and adds a few helper functions, but it
does so taking the original data from a vendored copy of zoneinfo, not
the standard copy on the system, which it pickles into the python modules.
From the timezone "forking saga" (https://lwn.net/Articles/870478/) it
looks like this can lead to divergences of output wrt tzdata; that at
least it needs to build against the "Offical Debian" tzdata and be
tracked with it (including backports).
Are any other packages in the same situation ? What will Debian be doing
wrt Timezone data ?
Best regards
Alastair
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Alastair McKinstry, <alastair@sceal.ie>, <mckinstry@debian.org>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry
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