Bug#590071: Removal of perl moudule/usr/share/perl5/DateTime/TimeZoneCatalog.pm inPackage:libdatetime-timezone-perl w/t version number(1:1.19-1+2010j).

[Peter Pentchev]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:44:30PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 03:40:08PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > package libdatetime-timezone-perl
> > tag 590071 + moreinfo
> > thanks
> > 
> > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 05:28:37PM +0530, Harish Badri Nath wrote:
> > > Package: libdatetime-timezone-perl
> > > Version: 1:0.77.01-1+2008c
> > > Severity: important
> > > 
> > > The above mentioned perl
> > > module(/usr/share/perl5/DateTime/TimeZoneCatalog.pm) was present in
> > > libdatetime-timezone-perl (1:0.77.01-1+2008c) {lenny's corresponding
> > > package}, but was removed from libdatetime-timezone-perl
> > > (1:1.19-1+2010j). Request this file, for inclusion in the corresponding
> > > squeeze's version.
> > 
> > Erm, I'm not quite sure where you're getting this impression from :)
> > On my testing system:
> [snip]
> > [roam at straylight ~]$ dpkg -S usr/share/perl5/DateTime/TimeZone/Catalog.pm
> > libdatetime-timezone-perl: /usr/share/perl5/DateTime/TimeZone/Catalog.pm
> > 
> > [roam at straylight ~]$ LANG=C ls -l /usr/share/perl5/DateTime/TimeZone/Catalog.pm
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 64262 May 10 17:58 /usr/share/perl5/DateTime/TimeZone/Catalog.pm
> 
> Oops.  I just noticed the problem :)  It is, as I initially thought,
> related to the following entry in the change log of the
> DateTime::TimeZone distribution, available on Debian systems as
> /usr/share/doc/libdatetime-timezone-perl/changelog.gz
> 
> 0.7901  2008-08-18
> 
> - This distro now provides the CET, EET, MET, and WET zones. These are
>   provided by the Olson database for backwards compatibility. It's
>   probably a bad idea to use them, but it's best if this package
>   matches what a Unix system provides.
> 
> - Moved the catalog to DateTime::TimeZone::Catalog, which now has some
>   POD that lists all the available zones.
> 
> So... the Debian package of DateTime::TimeZone is simply following
> upstream's decision to rename the file, placing it properly into the
> distribution's DateTime::TimeZone::* hierarchy.
> 
> I'm sorry, but it looks like you might have to update your scripts to
> work with the more recent DateTime::TimeZone version by using the new
> name of the catalog module :>

Since it seems that this is indeed a documented upstream change that
was reflected in the Debian package update, I'm closing this bug now.

G'luck,
Peter

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