On 2019-11-17 09:40, Paul Eggert wrote:

On 11/16/19 10:42 PM, Phake Nick wrote:

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some rules for Antarctica/Troll have been commented out, with the description of it saying "uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent". Is it still not prevalent enough to uncomment them now?

Let's wait another year at least. RHEL 6.10 still uses older zic and is supported through 2020-11-30. There may be other operating systems that have similar issues.

That's kinda scary orgs may still be running 10 year old software (and hardware, but more likely only in VMs) with only minor updates, given the info below, summarized from RH sources. I was shocked how old some of the package releases were even on newer versions I used. RH info about tzdata releases: https://access.redhat.com/articles/1187353 https://developers.redhat.com/blog/author/patsyfranklin/ https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/02/22/time-zone-data-tzdata-2018-dat... "As such, the RHEL tzdata package is currently shipping with the rearguard format to allow time for our data format consumers to update their parsers to the newer format." Given RH is shipping rearguard to customers with any support, it appears you could update the sources, as long as you provide any necessary additional protections in rearguard. [FYI: There are a lot of hand waving weasel words around support information on RH site which appears to be written by lawyers or someone who can not provide information clearly. They advise contracting RH Consulting so they can determine your support needs. MS is a model of clarity by comparison about EoL. Extended Life Phase ELS - no bug fixes, security fixes, hardware enablement or root-cause analysis, on existing installations only. ELS add on support subscription provides tzdata updates. Extended Update Support EUS - RH-defined Critical and Important impact security (Important CVEs) and selected (at Red Hat discretion) Urgent Priority bug fixes available for a specific minor release in parallel to subsequent minor releases, for selected platforms and packages: included with x86-64 Server Premium subscriptions, available for x86-64 Server Standard, and for RHEL 8 IBM Power LE and IBM System z subscriptions. Maintenance Support/1/2 seems to be the period during which you may subscribe to EUS on a supported release after Full Support ends, RH may provide a discretionary minor update, or tell you to migrate to fix a problem: Version FS ended MS1 ends MS2 ends 6 May 10, 2016 May 10, 2017 November 30, 2020 7 August 6, 2019 August 6, 2020 June 30, 2024 "The only RHEL6 channels receiving updates are the base channel, and 6.7 EUS until December 31 2018. There is no EUS for 6.8 onwards." This implies there are no updates being produced for RHEL 6. What I was able to find implies no kernel fixes since mid-2018. I was surprised how many CVEs have been found since then which apply to that release. Possibly if enough customers complain about a problem, they will look at backporting a patch or minor update. EUS seems to be "support" to avoid migrating to newer releases, and for performing a migration, but for little value. RH also offers Advanced Mission Critical Update Support AUS for certain releases, details of which are available only to RH support customers. In RHEL 7, EUS is available for the following releases, and no longer available for earlier releases: 7.5 released April 10, 2018 ends April 30, 2020 7.6 released October 30, 2018 ends October 31, 2020 7.7 released August 6, 2019 ends August 30, 2021 In RHEL 8, EUS is planned for RHEL 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, and 8.8: 8.1 release November 30, 2019 ends November 30, 2021 8.2 release May 31, 2020 ends May 31, 2022 8.4 release May 31, 2021 ends May 31, 2023 8.6 release May 31, 2022 ends May 31, 2024 8.8 release May 31, 2023 ends May 31, 2025] -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.