On 9/28/21 10:01, Paul Ganssle via tz wrote:
For those on the list who re-package this, what did / do you plan to release? A version using `PACKRATDATA=backzone`, or no?
I don't know of major distributions using PACKRATDATA=backzone, and as I mentioned earlier I wouldn't recommend switching to that option if you're worried about pre-1970 churn, as it would change many more pre-1970 timestamps than 2021b does. PACKRATDATA=backzone is intended mostly for astrologers and suchlike who want access to pre-1970 data even if it's out-of-scope and/or woefully incomplete and/or wrong. For what it's worth, Red Hat rawhide rebased to 2021b on Saturday, and also included my followup patch to fix the Jan Mayen typo. See: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/tzdata/c/c1c7aed6464460ab060ed09cd87ad872... It's their normal practice to test this sort of thing extensively before distributing to Fedora and eventually to RHEL users, and they're quite good about letting us know of any issues that come up. As Matthew noted, Debian cherry-picked the Samoa and Fiji changes, as well as the update to leap second expiration. Debian has cherry-picked in the past, and I'm not surprised they did it this time too given all the uproar on the mailing list. Consideration of packaging 2021b is one of Debian's high-priority items in their tracker list; see <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tzdata>.