Package: tzdata Version: 2007h-2 Severity: wishlist It would be very useful for Emdebian if tzdata could be split into separate packages for each $TIMEZONE value in debian/rules. Users could then install just the packages needed for their embedded device without wasting precious flash space.
It could be possible to use the existing template generation code to generate extra packages to be appended to debian/control prior to the build and creating tzdata-$TIMEZONE.install files with the necessary variables included: tzgen/$TIMEZONE/* usr/share/zoneinfo/$TIMEZONE/ tzgen/posix/$TIMEZONE/* usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/$TIMEZONE/ etc. This would split tzdata into 14 packages (possibly with a tzdata-base package making 15) and make tzdata about 10x smaller for most users. Whilst hard disc space is cheap for Debian, flash space is incredibly expensive for embedded users and the current tzdata package simply cannot be used on some devices that could use Emdebian. I have experimented with this approach with manual changes to tzdata but without some form of automation, the changes would get out of sync. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tzdata depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.15 Debian configuration management sy tzdata recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
