On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 9:45 AM Felix Geyer <fge...@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2023 03:34:19 -0500 Sandro Tosi <mo...@debian.org> wrote:
> > > python-dateutil expects to have 'dateutil-zoneinfo.tar.gz' in it's
> > > directory
> > > tree, but this file is removed in the packaging.
> > >
> > > Error:
> > > "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dateutil/zoneinfo/__init__.py:26:
> > > UserWarning:
> > > I/O error(2): Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> > > warnings.warn("I/O error({0}): {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))"
> > >
> > > Using: "matplotlib.dates import DateFormatter"
> >
> > indeed this is breaking matplotlib, thus the grave severity. it needs
> > to be addressed for bookworm
>
> How exactly does this break matplotlib?
it produces output on stderr, which many tools consider it an error
and fails build.
> dateutil.zoneinfo really shouldn't be used directly and I don't see any
can you back this quote please? zoneinfo is part of the public API,
and just breaking it (via the removal of the zonefile) and say not to
use it is going in the wrong direction.
> I guess we have two options if we want to change the current behavior:
> 1) Ship the outdated tzdata tarball even though nothing should really use it.
> 2) Add a patch to remove the dateutil.zoneinfo fallback.
i think you're missing
3) fix dateutil.zoneinfo to use a system-available zone info file
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