X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Severity: serious Package: libtzinfo-ruby Version: 0.3.10-1
Hi Roberto, unfortunately, Damián's mail does not seem to have been sent to -submitter and escaped the ftpmaster evaluating the package. Can you please make sure that a solution for tzinfo in Ruby is found that does NOT duplicate the timezone data, neither in the source nor binary packages? If it cannot be done with the current scheme, upstream needs to come up with a way better way of packaging this. It's silly to take any database and compile it into programs. Kind regards T. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Please don't include yet another copy of tzdata in the archive Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:51:14 -0300 From: Damián Viano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CCing ftpmaster so they don't miss this bit) Hi, Please, make your package use the system timezone. "The tz database is compiled into Ruby modules which are packaged in the release. No external zoneinfo files are required at runtime." That really isn't a feature in Debian, it's needless duplicating tzdata information (which is always installed since libc6 depends on it) with the associated maintenance burden. We already gone trough this with: php #447174 postgresql #458927 python-tz #416202 And still have to deal with: java 474595 Please don't add your package to the list. I hate to have to vote for rejecting a package, but I really think is for the best. I know some ruby so if you need help with a patch or something, just mention it in this bug. Thanks for taking this in consideration. Damián Viano(Des). -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
