Re: timezone data packaged separately and in volatile?
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:42:25PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> At Tue, 7 Feb 2006 14:30:01 +1100,
> Anand Kumria wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:42:31PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>>> I just realised that the timezone data in glibc is taken from an
>>> upstream database (namely ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/). This data
>>> sometimes changes, more rapidly than our release cycle (and than
>>> any release cycle we can reasonable have).
>> But that doesn't mean that we can issue an update to a stable package.
>> Currently they are mainly done for security purposes -- but stable
>> updates should not be confined to only that. They should be done
>> to keep the system functional.
> Note that I was planning to separate timezone package from glibc
> package (but I forgot it). It'll be available by the next release,
> etch.
Excellent! Thank you. Do you mean in a separate source package or in a
binary package generated by glibc?
--
Lionel
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