Bug#974899: libdatetime-timezone-perl: Inconsistent Olson versions within Timezone data

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:35:02 +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote:

> Package: libdatetime-timezone-perl
> Version: 1:2.09-1+2020d
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> There seems to be an internally inconsistency in this package in that
> the Olson versions defined in timezones are inconsistent:
> 
> % dpkg -L libdatetime-timezone-perl | xargs grep olson_version 2>/dev/null | cut -d' ' -f3 | sort | uniq -c
>       2
>     175 {'2019c'}
>     185 {'2020d'}
> 
> This leads to warnings appearing:
> 
> Loaded DateTime::TimeZone::Europe::London, which is from a different version (2020d) of the Olson database than this installation of DateTime::TimeZone (2019c).

Hi Ben,

thanks for your bug report!

The version of libdatetime-timezone-perl this bug is reported against
(in stretch(-security)) is not maintained by the package maintainers
but by the LTS team. I'm cc'ing their list and the uploader of
1:2.09-1+2020d.


Cheers,
gregor

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