[Pkg-javascript-devel] moment-timezone.js_0.5.32+dfsg1-2+2021a_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Debian FTP Masters (2021-02-04 08:03:29)
>    [ Martina Ferrari ]
>    * Rebuild data files using tzdata package.
>      As upstreams seems almost abandoned, I changed debian/rules to
>      automatically rebuild the time zone databases using the tzdata package,
>      instead of depending on a new upstream release.
>      I also added a patch from an unmerged Pull Request that fixes the
>      rebuilding in linux.
>      To activate this mechanism, the debian release should be suffixed by +NNNNz
>      where NNNNz is the current version of the Olson database.
>    * Add patch to update test file to match changes in Olson DB 2021a.

Thanks a lot, Martina!

For the record for other similar packages: Even if upstream is active, 
it is _still_ wrong to treat generated code as source in Debian.

Patching like the above is the proper approach in general.


 - Jonas

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