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Re: Updating tzdata freely
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Updating tzdata freely |
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Fri, 10 Mar 2017 23:33:14 +0100 |
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Hi!
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
> I checked that glib and R do not retain any references to tzdata after
> they are built, so we could create a tzdata package with a "fixed"
> version that will not be updated very often.
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> So, we could update this package more freely, at the cost of some extra
> complexity in package maintenance.
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> What do you think?
I think it’s a good idea.
‘guile-2.0/fixed’ in (gnu packages guile) was introduced for the same
reason.
Ludo’.