Re: RFS: python3-dateutil

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Thomas Kluyver <thomas@kluyver.me.uk>, 2012-03-24, 12:29:
> > dateutil.zoneinfo.gettz() always returns None. Is that how it's 
> > supposed to work?
> I think this is a consequence of our removing the zoneinfo data file. 
> It should probably be patched to use a system copy, but python-dateutil 
> seems to live without that functionality.

I see that you disabled tests for zoneinfo, which I interpret as a "yes" 
answer to my question. Well, I can't see how such behaviour is 
useful[0], but at very least it deserves a big red warning in 
README.Debian.


[0] Useful behaviour would be e.g.:
- using system-wide timezone database or
- throwing an exception (with an informative message) if user tries to 
use the function or even
- not shipping the sub-module at all in the binary package.

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Jakub Wilk