Hi! On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 10:56:58 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:40:58AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > So given that the timezone name has never been accepted, many > > time-parsing functions ignore it, it is redundant, declared obsolete > > by RFC5322 and Debian policy dropped an explicit reference to it due > > to bug 569174. I'd say we should just drop it instead of fixing the > > regex. Comments? > > Go ahead. As you have just shown, there are plenty of good reasons to > drop it and little to keep it. > > [ I did a little experiment and could not find a single timezone name > in my 18 years of changelogs ].
Ok, thanks, I've queued the patch for dpkg now, and filed bugs with patches to remove support for timezone names for the other packages: On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 04:40:58 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Parse/DebianChangelog.pm #792414 > python-debian: lib/debian/changelog.py endline and endline_nodetails #792415 > po4a: lib/Locale/Po4a/Text.pm parse_debianchangelog #792416 > root-system: build/package/lib/makerpmcl.pl #792417 Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150714160334.ga4...@gaara.hadrons.org