We don’t have tzdata[1] packaged because we can rely on having system
time zone data installed, and tzdata “is intended to be a fallback for
systems that do not have system time zone data installed (or don’t have
it installed in a standard location), as a part of PEP 615[2].”
Looking at the latest python-dateutil release, I think you should just
patch out the tzdata dependency, something like this:
# We can rely on system timezone data being installed.
# This dependency would only be needed for the deprecated
dateutil.zoneinfo
%pyproject_patch_dependency tzdata:ignore
You’ll have to do some impact-checking and patch coordination for this
update anyway, and it’s better to help dependent packages migrate away
from dateutil.zoneinfo (if any are even using it directly) than to
package and constantly update yet another independent copy of the
timezone database.
All of the tests in python-dateutil that rely on the tzdata package are
already automatically skipped if it isn’t installed.
[1] https://pypi.org/project/tzdata/
[2] https://peps.python.org/pep-0615/
On 08/11/2026 10:01 am, Mattia Verga via python-devel wrote:
The new 4.0.0 version now depends on tzdata, but I can't find the python
package in Fedora... am I missing something? It seems odd that we don't already
have it packaged...
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