Bug#1012166: ITP: haskell-tzdata -- Haskell package that distributes the standard time zone database

[Robert Greener <rob@robgreener.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Robert Greener <rob@robgreener.com>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : haskell-tzdata
  Version         : 0.2.20220315.0
  Upstream Author : Janus Troelsen <ysangkok@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tzdata-0.2.20220315.0
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Haskell 2.0
  Description     : Haskell package that distributes the standard time zone database
The goal of this package is to distribute the standard Time Zone Database in a cabal package, so that it can be used in Haskell programs uniformly on all platforms.

This package currently ships the 2022a version of the time zone database. The version of the time zone database shipped is always reflected in the version of this package: x.y.YYYYMMDD.z, then YYYYMMDD is the official release date of time zone database.

This version contains the "fat" variant of the time zone files (which is not the default for the upstream since 2020b) to facilitate the transition. The next major version (0.3) will ship the "slim" variant.

See: http://www.iana.org/time-zones for more info about the time zone database.

See also the tz package http://hackage.haskell.org/package/tz or the timezone-olson and timezone-series packages that provide facilities to use the data shipped here. (The tz package automatically installs this package.)