Re: Updating tzdata freely

2017-03-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 07:14:55PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > Currently, updating tzdata will cause about 1400 package rebuilds. > > However, if don't use the primary tzdata package in the test suites of > > glib and R, a tzdata update will only

Re: Updating tzdata freely

2017-03-12 Thread Marius Bakke
Leo Famulari writes: > After creating a special "for tests only" xorg-server package for GTK+'s > test suite recently, I started thinking about what other packages could > receive the same treatment. > > Tzdata is an important package to keep up to date. Amazingly, some >

Re: Updating tzdata freely

2017-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Leo Famulari skribis: > I checked that glib and R do not retain any references to tzdata after > they are built, so we could create a tzdata package with a "fixed" > version that will not be updated very often. > > So, we could update this package more freely, at the

Updating tzdata freely

2017-03-09 Thread Leo Famulari
After creating a special "for tests only" xorg-server package for GTK+'s test suite recently, I started thinking about what other packages could receive the same treatment. Tzdata is an important package to keep up to date. Amazingly, some governments do announce time zone changes only days or