On Sun, 2024-08-11 at 20:53 +0000, weepingclown wrote: > Hi, > > I did consider the same and discussed within the python team, but tzdata does > not have US/* timezones anymore (which apparently now is in the tzdata-legacy > package) which pendulum uses. Having to depend on several packages and adding > several workarounds does not seem really nice when there is a perfectly well > upstream package that is made just for such usages, not to mention maintained > by the python team itself. And as mentioned, zoneinfo from standard library > itself seems to be making use of the python tzdata package (just what I found > after going through the source code), so I believe there is value in having > this in debian.
The problem with this is that timezones are frequently updated. Every
time the data gets duplicated for the convenience of another language,
that adds further to the work that has to be done in stable and LTS
updates.
Ben.
> On 11 August 2024 8:36:00 pm UTC, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > Since this is meant to be a fallback, and you can make the Debian
> > package of pendulum depend on tzdata, is python-tzdata really needed?
> >
> > Ben.
> >
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