On Tue, 2023-01-10 at 10:15 +0000, Robie Basak wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 07:01:05PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Aurelien and I assume that probably nobody is using them. We plan to > > drop both directories. If nobody speaks up, I will remove them in the > > coming weeks from the Ubuntu tzdata package prior to the feature freeze. > > After the Debian 12 "bookworm" release, we will remove it from Debian. > > I have no particular opinion on this specific change, as I'm not > familiar in this area. One request though: we have a special SRU > procedure for tzdata here: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#tzdata. Please could you > ensure and test that this process will still work reasonably, avoiding > the accidental removal of this feature from stable releases? > > It sounds like it might be fine without needing to do anything special, > but I thought it important to mention and test in the case of tzdata > specifically because it is a special case.
I am fully aware of the SRU procedure for tzdata. This change should only be implemented for Ubuntu >= 23.04 and not backported to the stable releases. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
