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

[Brian Sutherland]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 05:45:45PM +0300, Gediminas Paulauskas wrote:
> 2011/9/17 Arnaud Fontaine <arnau at debian.org>:
> > Hi,
> >
> >> I have checked on difference of 2011h from 2010b:
> >>
> >> *  API changes  are  minimal and  seems  to be  backward compatible  *
> >> primarily it is an update of timezones information
> >>
> >> I saw no harm of updating unstable with it, so I did a sloppy uupdate,
> >> cloned  original bugreport  to leave  3k compatibility  on  TODO list,
> >> tested  the  package  (lintian  warnings remained),  and  uploaded  to
> >> 10-days delayed. (if you don't mind, I could re-upload to 0-delay ;) )
> >>
> >> If rejected/objected, NMU and its  backports for all recent Debian and
> >> Ubuntu releases could be found at neuro.debian.net
> >
> > Indeed, I was waiting for Gediminas  to confirm that there is no problem
> > with updating  the packages in  pkg-zope SVN repository  (which includes
> > pytz) to  ZTK 1.1.2 before  uploading these packages...  Gediminas: have
> > you had time to look at that?
> >
> > 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).
> 
> I would like all the work that is already done uploaded first, and
> only then look what is not up-to-date with ZTK 1.1
> 
> pytz is not even part of ZTK, and should always be the latest, so this
> discussion did not need to happen. I can update the ZTK myself, and
> the bump of pytz version would be one I would worry the least about.
> 
> It is best to match the tzdata version, because python-tz package uses
> that data instead of the included one. tzdata in sid is already at
> 2011j.

As I said in another e-mail, the python-tz package does not contain the
zoneinfo data itself. It is patched to use the data from tzdata.

So we only need to upload it when the code changes. We get data
upgrades for free and we'll always be in-sync with tzdata.

-- 
Brian Sutherland