On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 21:30, Benjamin Drung via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
the Debian/Ubuntu package uses BACKWARD=backward PACKRATDATA=backzone. The resulting tzdata.zi has the timezone Africa/Asmara, but Africa/Asmera points to Africa/Nairobi instead of the existing Africa/Asmara:
Can this fixed/configured?
As can be seen, the PACKRATDATA approach is not suitable for full backwards compatibility. This is why I'm still maintaining global-tz even though I don't want to https://github.com/JodaOrg/global-tz As can be seen, it correctly adjusts this example: https://github.com/JodaOrg/global-tz/blob/global-tz/africa#L407 https://github.com/JodaOrg/global-tz/blob/global-tz/backward#L191 I'm happy if Canonical wants to switch to global-tz and/or help maintain it. Stephen