Bug#666502: python-tz: returns incorrect UTC offsets

[Mehdi Dogguy]

On 21/05/12 11:46, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Mehdi Dogguy<mehdi at dogguy.org>  writes:
>
>>> I cannot reproduce  this issue with the current  version
>>> available in Sid (2011h-1), so  I guess this is a Squeeze-only
>>> issue.  Thanks for the bug report.
>>
>> Do you intend to try to fix this in Squeeze? (See [1]) AFAICS, the
>> fix is known  and thus could be  easily fixed in Squeeze  (note
>> that there are other related fixes to tzname() and dst() methods).
>
> Well, it  could be done, especially  considering that the fix[0]  is
> not really intrusive. As you pointed out, perhaps tzname[1] and
> dst[2] fixes could be  added too. I  have only done one  upload of
> python-tz  so far, therefore I'm  not so familiar  with it,  but
> these patches  seem pretty straightforward...
>

It does. Please ask for a stable-update on debian-release by filing a
"pu" bugreport against release.debian.org. (That's the best way to find
out if an update is feasible ;)).

Regards,

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