Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 10:26:54AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: >> > I just pushed a tzdata update to a new staging branch. Let's build and >> > merge this branch before the next release. >> >> We can do that, but should it be a blocker? Anyway, let’s try and we’ll >> see. >> >> BTW: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> $ ./pre-inst-env guix refresh -l -e '(@@ (gnu packages base) tzdata)' >> Building the following 239 packages would ensure 442 dependent packages are >> rebuilt >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > It used to be about ~1400 :)
Right, definitely an improvement! >> I was expecting to see fewer packages depending on this one since >> 3ffaec136fab017e6cc094287da207cf30f05974. Perhaps in the ‘staging’ >> branch we should migrate a few more packages to ‘tzdata-2017a’? > > The bulk of it comes through libical, so I'm not sure we can get it > under 300 rebuilds without removing tzdata from libical. > > Having said that, I'm not sure if libical even needs a run-time > reference to tzdata. At least, we didn't notice that it was missing for > ~1 year: > > <https://bugs.gnu.org/26039> Heh, indeed. I guess we can address it at a later stage, whenever is convenient. Ludo’.
