On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote:
> On 29Dec2012 21:16, Lennart Regebro <rege...@gmail.com> wrote: > | On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> > wrote: > | > Why should we care about that situation if we *do* provide a database? > | > Distributions can decide to exclude some files from their packages, but > | > it's their problem, not ours. > | > | Yes, but a comprehensible error message is useful even if somebody messed > | up the system/configuration. > > Couldn't you just agree to augument the exception with some "I looked > here, there and there" information. It avoids a lot of bikeshedding and > makes things clear. You're not diagnosing system misconfiguration, just > saying "I can't find stuff, and here is where I looked". > Since the location of the tzdata-update package isn't a fixed place it's hard to say "I looked here, there and there", though. I don't think anyone has suggested making any diagnostics. :-) //Lennart
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