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On Thu, 2020-10-29 at 09:14 +0000, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: |
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> Tl;DR: |
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> Upstream timezone-data-2020b changed the way /usr/share/zoneinfo |
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> files are generated by default. Gentoo does NOT enable this new |
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> default to keep existing software running (so far). |
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> You can enable new default explicitly with USE=zic-slim switch. |
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> Libraries and tools that parse /usr/share/zoneinfo will break in trivial |
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> (crashes) or very obscure ways (DST time switch will not happen and |
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> will report wrong time). |
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Does this mean we won't learn whether it works until 6 months from now? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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