On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 05:20:37PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Chris!
> 
> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> skribis:
> 
> > From 60a448f1daf37927155577dabaf1c090f9404bee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
> > Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 20:45:04 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add perl-libtime-parsedate.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/perl.scm (perl-libtime-parsedate): New variable.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +    (arguments
> > +     ;; Output when running tests:
> > +     ;;   t/metdate.t ... skipped: It seems localtime() does not honor
> > +     ;;   $ENV{TZ} when set in the test script.
> > +     ;; Seemingly related:
> > +     ;;   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19956693/timeparsedate-install-fail
> > +     ;;   https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=90367
> > +     `(#:tests? #f))
> 
> Perhaps if we add a dependency on tzdata and set TZDIR, as is done for
> ‘duplicity’ for instance, the tests would run?
> 
> Anyway this probably shouldn’t block the whole series!

If it only uses them for tests, please use the special tzdata package
that is just for tests, currently tzdata-2017a.

This package is out-of-date, so the built package should not keep a
reference to it.