On Tue, 2024-04-02 at 13:18 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 4/2/24 09:55, Benjamin Drung via tz wrote:
An alternative would be to move the link changes into the "main" data form and the previous behaviour into "rearguard".
Another alternative would be for Ubuntu to upgrade to release TZDB 2024a's zic.c (also private.h and tzfile.h and zdump.c). This would avoid the need for a new configuration option, which would be simpler in the long run.
Switching to TZDB's zic would be an option for the development release of Ubuntu, but not for the stable releases: We ship tzdata.zi in /usr/share/zoneinfo and we do not know if users rely on being able to use zic from glibc on that file. Attached the new version of the patch to avoid adding a new data format.
Come to think of it, glibc should do that too. I'll add that to my list of things to do.
That would be great. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer