Timezone upgrades
Registered by
Martin Pitt
Time zones (package tzdata) change several times a year. Right now we neither provide updates for stable releases nor an upgrade path if time zones get split or merged. We should identify the possible problems and find a way to cleanly transition them.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Martin Pitt
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
- Martin Pitt
Whiteboard
After discussing this with Colin and Jeff, this does not require any significant effort on our side after all, and we just exercised it in bug 72125 without many problems.
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