Bug#590987: libjoda-time-java: embeds outdated timezone data

Aurelien Jarno aurelien at aurel32.net
Fri Jul 30 21:55:01 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 08:57:28PM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:
> Package: libjoda-time-java
> Version: 1.6-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> The package embeds timezone data (currently 2008i) and is used by other
> packages like JRuby for performance reasons or because of its greater
> functionality over plain Java. We should check how the timezone data can be
> kept up to date in the future. Upstream describes the update process at
> <http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/tz_update.html> but that means to recompile
> the package with every update. We should check
> 
> - if we could use tzdata-java directly, or
> - if the tzdata source package can provide the data in a format usable by
>   joda-time (Cc-ing the tzdata maintainer).
> 

The problem with the second option is that each time tzdata is uploaded
to the archive (and it happens at almost every *stable* point release), 
libjoda-time-java would have to be rebuilt.

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