2007/10/4, Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 05:02:00PM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > > Please provide the tzdata-source binary package with original Olsen > > database. My package libdatetime-timezone-perl (possibly others, like > > libicu) could use it as build-dep. It would make the synchronizing the > > timezone data much simplier for volatile archive. > > > > See also Bug#416206. > > Is making it use the tzdata binary data at runtime (as suggested in > #416206) not a much better idea?
Providing another library with 100% compatible API is interesting idea, but the DateTime::TimeZone already exists and is used by some existing projects and packages. This library is stable and reliable. I'm the maintainer of DateTime::TimeZone , not the upstream developer. I really don't want to completly redesign this library just because the Debian already provides the Olson DB only as binary data. Rewriting the library from scratch can't be harmless for its stability and reliability. I think this idea is just not realizable. -- .''`. Piotr Roszatycki : :' : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
