Bug#616650: Info received (2011h is available)

[Gediminas Paulauskas]

2011/9/21 Arnaud Fontaine <arnau at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> It also removes one  TZ, but if it's a minor one,  so that should not be
> an issue.  Although,  it's just better to follow  ZTK version in general
> otherwise it will be a mess, unless there is a good reason of course.

pytz is not part of ZTK, it's an external dependency. Timezone info
should always be the latest. There are little code in there, what
changes with new versions is mostly new data.

So 2011g or h does not matter much. Anything is better than current old version.

> Anyhow, generally speaking,  nobody seems to care reading  the Wiki page
> or the ML  before uploading (see zope.deprecation upload),  so feel free
> to do whatever you want because I don't really care anymore...
>
> Arnaud
>
> Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh at debian.org> writes:
>
>>> While the upload of pytz seems harmless, I would prefer to follow ZTK
>>> 1.1.2 versions (unless Gediminas disagrees of course), which suggests
>>> pytz 2011g (even if it's just a small change).
>>
>> as far as I see it -- there is no code change between, only that 2011g
>> more up-to-date and includes more zones (which is a good thing):
>>
>> $> diff -Naur pytz-2011g pytz-2011h | lsdiff
>> pytz-2011g/PKG-INFO                         pytz-2011g/pytz/__init__.py
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/tests/test_tzinfo.py
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/America/Kralendijk
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/America/Lower_Princes
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Anadyr
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Irkutsk
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Kamchatka
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Krasnoyarsk
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Magadan
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Novokuznetsk
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Novosibirsk
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Omsk
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Sakhalin
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Vladivostok
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Yakutsk
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Asia/Yekaterinburg
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Europe/Kaliningrad
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Europe/Moscow
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Europe/Samara
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/Europe/Volgograd
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab      pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/W-SU
>> pytz-2011g/pytz/zoneinfo/zone.tab     pytz-2011g/pytz.egg-info/PKG-INFO
>> pytz-2011g/pytz.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
>>
>>
>>> Moreover, after looking quickly at your package, it includes egg-info
>>> into the diff.gz... (maybe I'm just being too fuzzy ;))
>>
>> I guess that one got "corrected" by setup.py clean ;-)
>>
>> ---         python-tz-2011h.orig/pytz.egg-info/SOURCES.txt         +++
>> python-tz-2011h/pytz.egg-info/SOURCES.txt @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
>>  LICENSE.txt MANIFEST.in README.txt
>> +setup.cfg
>>  setup.py pytz/__init__.py pytz/exceptions.py
>



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Gediminas