Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Denis Barbier a écrit :
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:22:50PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>
> > Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit :
> >
> > > - glibc maintainers, would you approve of such an update to a point
> > >  release of sarge?
> >
> > I am *one* of the glibc maintainer, and I agree in principle with such a 
> > change, though I haven't look very deeply at your patch (will do that 
> > later).
> >
> > I hope other glibc maintainers will give their opinion there.
>
>
> Ditto, but this should be done for all sarge stable releases, which is a
> lot of work.  IMO splitting timezone data into a seperate package in
> the next sarge release would help future releases, if this is allowed by
> our stable RMs.

Well I am currently trying to split the glibc to not have libraries and 
binaries in the same package (that will be a problem for multiarch). 
While I am doing that, I can also put the timezone data in a separate 
package.

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