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Leo Famulari skribis: > Currently, almost the entire distro is rebuilt when we need to update > the time zone database, tzdata. > > We need to do this a few times a year, and it doesn't make any sense for > packages to keep a static reference to this database which will be out > of date in a few months. > > Instead, they should look up the time zones at run-time, which most > programs that actually use time zones do. Most programs behave fine though, right? In particular, glibc honors $TZDIR and we set TZDIR to the latest tzdata in (gnu system). > These patches start improving the situation. > > Libical has committed a fix for this almost 5 years ago, but still > hasn't released it, so we cherry-pick Nix's patch: > > https://github.com/libical/libical/issues/350 LGTM! > Go wants to embed a copy of the database in case one cannot be found. I > don't see why having an incorrect time zone is better than no time > zones, so here's a patch to remove the embedded copy. Sounds good, but do we need to build it in a branch first? > We have more work to do to remove or replace python-pytz, which > unfortunately contains its own embedded copy of the database and a few > thousand dependents. Luckily, it seems that Python 3.9 has made pytz > obsolete: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecatePytz#Deprecate_pytz OK. Thanks! Ludo=E2=80=99.