[Pkg-postgresql-public] Bug#795729: Bug#795729: closed by Christoph Berg <myon at debian.org> (Bug#795729: fixed in libpqtypes 1.5.1-3)

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Chris Lamb 2018-03-17 <1521313480.1891152.1306660656.6A98705B at webmail.messagingengine.com>
> Hi Christoph:
> 
> > (I'd rather not put a workaround like TZ=UTC
> > into debian/rules as it would just paper over the issue
> 
> Nod…
> 
> >   * Set TZ=UTC to avoid build failure with TZ=Etc/GMT+12.
> 
> … hang on! Can you clarify? :-)

libpqtypes is pretty much dead upstream. I'd rather have it build
{sanely|reproducibly} using a hack, than not at all.

If I recall the issue correctly, the problem is only visible when
using an artificial timezone like GMT+N, but not when using the
standard ones (Europe/Berlin). So it's not even a real problem in
practise. (What I wrote in the bug about it being a PostgreSQL bug was
a red herring.)

Christoph