Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] GIT changes to master grimoire by Arjan Bouter (799113ffd65dbd5d6c41bc47925d9db3e101ffda)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:10:41 +0200
On Mon, 21 May 2012 02:19:53 -0400
Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The version in glibc is fairly outdated and is just an older version
> of tzdata. We will have to provide this eventually (assuming we don't
> stick with glibc 2.13 forever) since upstream has chosen not to
> install timezone rule files.
> If we do supply an option it would have to be in glibc.
>
I'm just thinking out loud here, but if glibc's zoneinfo is just an old tzdata
version, then why not replace it in glibc's PRE_BUILD?
That way we don't even need a separate tzdata spell.