On 7/13/21 8:12 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote: > On 12. 07. 21 18:31, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >> If you can minimally provide the tables of possible zones, and >> provide an easy way to detect a zone is missing, then the APIs can >> determine: "Yes you could do that, but your system is missing the >> data." vs. "That is an invalid zone." Which is a useful >> distinction. > > Sure, we can provide such an API, but that alone won't make consumers > use it. Especially if it's specific to Fedora (and Clear Linux -- > AFAIK, people expect missing bits and pieces are there.) > > I think the best place to discuss and document this would be the tz. > If their README (or just a mail thread) said the data can be split > this way, and hinted at what should be done when it is, we wouldn't > need this conversation. Without that, I don't think it's OK to allow > Fedora systems with only tzdata-minimal.
That's a fair point. We'll get clarification from upstream and Paul Eggert. -- Cheers, Carlos. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
