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and subject line Re: Bug#594219: manpages: tzfile.5 is very old, does not match
current tzfile format on Debian
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Package: manpages
Version: 3.05-1
Severity: normal
The tzfile.5 man page is very old, from before the Version 2
format of zoneinfo files was defined. Since version 2010j
of the upstream zoneinfo files, which is the version now used
in the Debian tzdata package, the zoneinfo files are in Version 2
format. Therefore, the tzfile.5 man page is incorrect - it
does not reflect the format of the zoneinfo files on Debian
systems anymore.
Fix: please replace tzfile.5 with the version that is
included in the correct version of the tzcode tarball
from upstream. The latest upstream version is at:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub
But technically, we want the version that exactly corresponds
to the current version of tzcode that is used on Debian,
not the latest version from upstream.
The correct version of the tzcode tarball is probably
available in the Debian source packages somewhere,
perhaps glibc. If not, historical versions are available at:
ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz
We currently want the one from tzcode2010j.tar.gz.
Wouldn't it make more sense for this man page to be
part of the tzdata package, so that the version of the
man page will track the file format used on Debian?
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APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
manpages depends on no packages.
manpages recommends no packages.
Versions of packages manpages suggests:
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ii man-db [man-brow 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager
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Version: 3.26-1
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:00:55AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Yitzchak Gale <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> The upstream man-pages package contains tzfile.5 and tzselect.8 manual
> >> pages, and I am guessing that these are shipped by Debian.
> >
> > No, only tzfile.5. Debian ships its own version of tzselect.8.
> >
> >> Checking ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub, I see that...
> >> the tzfile.5 page at elsie contains new info that isn't in the
> >> man-pages version of this page.
> >> At this stage, I am not sure whether the correct course of action for
> >> me upstream is
> >> a) Remove tzfile.5 and tzselect.8 from the man-pages
> >> b) Update the tzfile.5 page in man-pages...
> >> it requires verifying that the tzfile.5 changes correspond to current glibc
> >> reality.
> >> c) Do nothing.
[..]
> Thanks for the input Yitz. I decided on (b), and applied the following
> patch, for man-pages-3.26.
Thanks Michael, the patch is present in Debian since 3.26-1.
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Simon Paillard
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