On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 08:57:28PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote: > Package: libjoda-time-java > Version: 1.6-3 > Severity: normal > > The package embeds timezone data (currently 2008i) and is used by other > packages like JRuby for performance reasons or because of its greater > functionality over plain Java. We should check how the timezone data can be > kept up to date in the future. Upstream describes the update process at > <http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/tz_update.html> but that means to recompile > the package with every update. We should check > > - if we could use tzdata-java directly, or > - if the tzdata source package can provide the data in a format usable by > joda-time (Cc-ing the tzdata maintainer). >
The problem with the second option is that each time tzdata is uploaded to the archive (and it happens at almost every *stable* point release), libjoda-time-java would have to be rebuilt. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 [email protected] http://www.aurel32.net __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use [email protected] for discussions and questions.
