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Bug#833510: ITP: ruby-tzinfo-data -- timezone data for tzinfo



On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 05:33:35PM +0800, Andrew Lee wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Andrew Lee (李健秋)" <ajqlee@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : ruby-tzinfo-data
>   Version         : 1.2016.6
>   Upstream Author : Philip Ross <phil.ross@gmail.com>
> * URL             : http://tzinfo.github.io
> * License         : MIT
>   Programming Lang: Ruby
>   Description     : timezone data for tzinfo
> 
>    This tzinfo-data contains data from the IANA Time Zone database
>    packaged as Ruby modules for use with TZInfo.

that is a terrible idea. timezone data has a reasonable churn in stable
releases; this package should probably use the data that is already
provided by tzdata, and expose it to Ruby.

actually, looking at the upstream homepage, it says this:

	 By default, TZInfo::Data will be used. If TZInfo::Data is not
	 available, then TZInfo will search for a zoneinfo directory
	 instead.

So we should/could probably not have this package.

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