On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:17:51PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Le 02/11/2011 10:11, Steven Ayre a écrit :
> > Package: tzdata
> > Version: 2011n-0squeeze1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > It could be useful to have a mechanism so that a tzdata upgrade (or 
> > downgrade) would run scripts that could perform actions such as updating 
> > any derived data on the system.
> > 
> > As an example we could have one such action a script that runs 
> > mysql_tzinfo_to_sql as debian-sys-maint to repopulate the timezone tables 
> > with the updated timezone information.
> > 
> > As a suggestion, this could be implemented as running all scripts in a 
> > /etc/tzdata.d directory at the end of the postinst script.
> 
> Why has it to be implemented in tzdata? Wouldn't be better if the other
> packages use the dpkg trigger mechanism to know when tzdata is updated?
> Or rather actually use the data from tzdata directly instead of
> duplicating the information.
> 

Any news on that?

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