From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Updating tzdata freely Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 23:33:14 +0100 Message-ID: <878tocdaol.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170309184304.GA8957@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58088) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmT6A-0000JI-Ak for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:33:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cmT65-0005uj-FC for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2017 17:33:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20170309184304.GA8957@jasmine> (Leo Famulari's message of "Thu, 9 Mar 2017 13:43:04 -0500") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi! Leo Famulari 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. > > So, we could update this package more freely, at the cost of some extra > complexity in package maintenance. > > What do you think? I think it=E2=80=99s a good idea. =E2=80=98guile-2.0/fixed=E2=80=99 in (gnu packages guile) was introduced fo= r the same reason. Ludo=E2=80=99.