On Mon, 16 Mar 2020 23:09:58 +0000 Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Package: tzdata > Version: 2019c-3 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > This adds ICU timezone datafiles from icu-data repository. > > The source .txt data files are sources for the binary .res files, > which are compiled at build time. Shipping this enabled to update > timezone database files at runtime for icu, by rebuilding icu by > setting `U_TIMEZONE_FILES_DIR` build-time config option, or at runtime > with environment variable `ICU_TIMEZONE_FILES_DIR`. This will resolve > a long standing bug that tzdata inside icu is never updated, and thus > apps that use icu to access tzdata are always out of date (i.e. php). > > Note that the .txt files do duplicate tzdata data files a bit. As they > are generated with a Java app by ICU upstream which merges tzdata > files as input together with https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr xmls > overrides. Maybe in the future, I will provide a more complete / > reproducible process to rebuild icu input .txt files from the tzdata > files directly with the xml overlays "from complete scratch". > > However, at least .res files generated are reproducible and match > checksums of the prebuild .res files distributed in the icu-data > repository. > > Regards, > > Dimitri.
Hi, Is this going to be reviewed / considered for inclusion? icu package in Debian now compiles with such a definition too, and is actively trying to lookup updated tzdata from that location. -- Regards, Dimitri.
