[oe] tzdata.bb

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.kabel.utwente.nl
Wed Feb 7 13:22:09 UTC 2007


Op wo, 07-02-2007 te 08:14 -0500, schreef Todd Blumer:
> Because of the impending changes to daylight savings time (DST) here
> in the US, I was motivated to work on creating a new timezone package.
> In the base package I tried to put a city in every timezone around the
> world. This package replaces the 'timezone' package used by Opie, so
> some other packages will need to be changed to depend on tzdata
> instead of timezone. (I used 'tzdata' since that is the Debian name
> and in case some developers were not ready to switch over to tzdata.)
> 
> Someone with write access to oe (something I should probably get
> eventually :-) can commit this to dev if you feel it is appropriate to
> do so. I have tested the US Eastern time.
> 
> I'm sure more work could be done here. Feedback is welcome.

2 small things:

* don't use cp -a, that breaks on non-GNU buildsystems
* don't rely on /usr/bin/zic being present, but provide a zic-native
recipe

regards,

Koe





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