Bug#833510: ITP: ruby-tzinfo-data -- timezone data for tzinfo

[Paul Wise]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 5:33 PM, Andrew Lee wrote:

>   Description : timezone data for tzinfo
>
>This tzinfo-data contains data from the IANA Time Zone database
>packaged as Ruby modules for use with TZInfo.

Folks have been trying to get embedded copies of the tzdata removed
from Debian for a long time. I would suggest that whatever uses this
should instead just directly use the data from the tzdata package.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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Bug#833510: ITP: ruby-tzinfo-data -- timezone data for tzinfo

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 05:33:35PM +0800, Andrew Lee wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: "Andrew Lee (李健秋)" 
> 
> * Package name: ruby-tzinfo-data
>   Version : 1.2016.6
>   Upstream Author : Philip Ross 
> * URL : http://tzinfo.github.io
> * License : MIT
>   Programming Lang: Ruby
>   Description : timezone data for tzinfo
> 
>This tzinfo-data contains data from the IANA Time Zone database
>packaged as Ruby modules for use with TZInfo.

that is a terrible idea. timezone data has a reasonable churn in stable
releases; this package should probably use the data that is already
provided by tzdata, and expose it to Ruby.

actually, looking at the upstream homepage, it says this:

 By default, TZInfo::Data will be used. If TZInfo::Data is not
 available, then TZInfo will search for a zoneinfo directory
 instead.

So we should/could probably not have this package.


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Bug#833510: ITP: ruby-tzinfo-data -- timezone data for tzinfo

[李健秋]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Andrew Lee (李健秋)" 

* Package name: ruby-tzinfo-data
  Version : 1.2016.6
  Upstream Author : Philip Ross 
* URL : http://tzinfo.github.io
* License : MIT
  Programming Lang: Ruby
  Description : timezone data for tzinfo

   This tzinfo-data contains data from the IANA Time Zone database
   packaged as Ruby modules for use with TZInfo.