On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:10:30 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > This release contains the data from version 2012g of the Olson > > database (and some other minor changes). > > I'm attaching the debdiff against 1.49-1+2012f modulo the boring changes > > in the tzdata-generated files. > Why doesn't this use the system timezone db instead?
The package contains the timezone data converted into Perl code/modules which are then used as regular Perl modules. In theory it would be nice to somehow couple the libdatetime-timezone-perl package to the tzdata package, but this hasn't happened yet; cf. #660404. (Rebuilding the perl code at install time is not an option; on my old machine this took about 20 minutes, haven't tried on recent hardware yet.) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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