Bug#471305: "Asia/Saigon" (Vietnam) should be changed to "Asia/Hanoi"
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 05:58:33PM +0700, Jean Christophe André wrote:
> As Martin Pitt already told us on Launchpad[1] (before I tried to go
> upstream step-by-step), people from tzdata have good arguments to keep
> going with current rules, which define time zone names using the "most
> populous" cities.
It looks as though that mailing list discussion is still going.
> Hopefully they already agreed to change "Saigon" to "Ho_Chi_Minh", but
> there's not enough space to append "_City" to the name since the POSIX
> limit is 14 characters for each path component.
>
> So as the last resort option, I'm trying to let "Hanoi" be a "link" to
> "Ho_Chi_Minh" so one can choose either one. Not sure if they'll agree on
> that since it requires more management on their side, especially if
> "everybody" start to ask to add link for the Capitol City...
Currently we remove such links from the debconf question, so if upstream
goes that route, we would need to make it a special case as well.
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