The build process for the tzdata package involves running zic (included in libc6) on a collection of text source files downloaded from upstream, and included in the tzdata source package (but not the binary package). This creates the binary files in /usr/share/zoneinfo
libtzinfo-ruby has a script in lib/tzinfo/tzdataparser.rb that parses the same text source files, and regenerates the ruby scripts in libtzinfo-ruby. Perhaps the easiest way to fix this for lenny is to convince the tzdata maintainer to install the text source files as well (either in tzdata or a separate package), and then use those at install time to generate brand new ruby versions. Then to deal with updates, set up a dpkg trigger that regenerates the ruby files when the text sources are updated. Alternatively, one could port the /usr/share/zoneinfo parser from ruby-tzfile and integrate it into libtzinfo-ruby, with a fallback to the embedded ruby files if /usr/share/zoneinfo doesn't exist (e.g. a non-Linux system, so that this port could be included upstream). I spent some time on Friday trying my hand at such a port, but I have no idea how to integrate it properly, and I have noticed that some of the information in the ruby scripts (specifically the difference between "the current timezone rules" and "standard time") is not derivable at all from the data in /usr/share/zoneinfo libtzinfo-ruby and ruby-tzdata have different enough interfaces that I doubt it will be feasible (or desirable) to port rails to use ruby-tzfile. ruby-tzfile creates its own completely different (incompatible) set of time objects from Ruby's builtin. Mathematical operations on ruby-tzdata objects are specified in seconds, while mathematical operations on Ruby's built-in time objects are specified in days. libtzinfo-ruby performs conversion on Ruby's built-in Time objects. Also, ruby-tzfile has not been updated in over a year. --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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