Re: RFS: python3-dateutil

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk>, 2012-03-28, 22:33:
> As far as I can see, the zoneinfo subpackage is used as a fallback by 
> dateutil.tz.gettz() if it can't find the equivalent system timezone 
> data files (the binary package has a dependency on tzdata).  
> zoneinfo.gettz() appears to account for the possibility that its local 
> data file doesn't exist, and returns None. I'm inclined to leave this 
> behaviour intact in case code depends on it, although it's not how I'd 
> design it myself. I've added a note in README.Debian pointing people to 
> dateutil.tz.gettz().

Okay...

Wouldn't it be better to update zoneinfo.gettz() tests to use 
tz.gettz(), instead of disabling them entirely?

Please add get-orig-source target.

The copyright file mentions dateutil/zoneinfo/zoneinfo-2011d.tar.gz, 
which doesn't exist in .orig.tar anymore.

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Jakub Wilk