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Bug#1012167: ITP: haskell-tz -- Efficient time zone handling



Hi Paul,

On Tue, 2022-05-31 at 21:45 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> On 31-05-2022 10:46, Robert Greener wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Robert Greener <rob@robgreener.com>
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> > 
> > * Package name    : haskell-tz
> >    Version         : 0.1.3.6
> >    Upstream Author : Janus Troelsen <ysangkok@gmail.com>
> > * URL             : https://hackage.haskell.org/package/tz
> > * License         : Apacehe-2.0
> >    Programming Lang: Haskell
> >    Description     : Efficient time zone handling
> > 
> > The goal of this package is to provide a library that can read time
> > zone info files (aka. Olson files), and does time zone conversions
> > in a pure and efficient way.
> 
> Do we really need to ship yet another package with these files? It's 
> already annoying to update two sources in stable updates to get this 
> right. I don't think it's great to add a third source. Maybe you can 
> expose the system files somehow to haskell instead?

I've patched haskell-tzdata (where haskell-tz gets the data from) so
that it uses the system files instead of supplying them. So it should
be ok.

-- 
Robert


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