[DRE-maint] Bug#798348: ruby-tzinfo: Loading tzdata may break because of encoding

[Herwin Weststrate]

Package: ruby-tzinfo
Version: 1.1.0-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Last weekend the tzdata package has had an update. This update added an
accent to the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab, making it UTF8
instead of ASCII. Depending on your locale settings, this may break
ruby-tzinfo, with an error like this:

  /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/tzinfo/zoneinfo_data_source.rb:325:in
  `block (2 levels) in load_country_index': invalid byte sequence in
  US-ASCII (ArgumentError)

This has been fixed upstream in release 1.2.0 (see fifth bullet of
<https://github.com/tzinfo/tzinfo/releases/tag/v1.2.0>)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ruby-tzinfo depends on:
ii  ruby                        1:2.1.5+deb8u1
ii  ruby-thread-safe            0.3.3-1
ii  ruby2.1 [ruby-interpreter]  2.1.5-2+deb8u2

ruby-tzinfo recommends no packages.

ruby-tzinfo suggests no packages.

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