Re: RFS: haskell-tz and haskell-tzdata
Hi Scott,
On Wed, 2022-06-01 at 10:29 -0400, Scott Talbert wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2022, Robert Greener wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > While I've been waiting for haskell-commonmark-pandoc to go through
> > the
> > NEW queue, I've added a few of the packages that are in package-
> > plan
> > because they're in the LTS release, but aren't in the repo.
> >
> > I've added tz and tzdata. I've patched tzdata to use the debian
> > supplied tzdata as a dependency, rather than supplying its own
> > files.
> >
> > They are on mentors[1,2] with corresponding MR[3,4].
> >
> > Also, I've updated them ahead of the LTS release, as I can't see
> > why
> > you would want out-of-date timezones! MR on package-plan here[5].
> >
> > Would someone sponsor these please?
>
> Are these needed for anything, or planned to be?
I've prepared arbtt for the latest release (as is needed otherwise
it'll be removed due to incompatibility with the new lts). This depends
on tz (and therefore tzdata) starting from the latest version. Could
you merge these and upload please?
There was some discussion on the ITP bugs about whether these would
need to be updated in stable; however, this is not the case. I've
patched haskell-tzdata so it just uses tzdata files.
--
Robert
ps. I'm with poor internet this week so I may reply very slowly. Also,
I've seen the stuff about the lts upgrade, I imagine this supersedes a
lot of the work done for the pandoc update (in any case the lts version
is much newer!). I'll email separately about this next week.
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