Mark this package as volatile
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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libdatetime-timezone-perl (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: libdatetime-
This package provides TimeZone information to Perl programs using the DateTime module.
So this module should be updated with the same policy as the 'tzdata' package, which means being volatile. See http://
See this message on the DateTime mailing list as a reference:
http://
>[...]
>Obviously timezone data is liable to
>change quickly, and the regular Debian processes for stability of code
>aren't appropriate. It turns out that Debian do make exceptions to the
>usual stability policy for necessarily-
>package is subject to such an exception.
>
>The nature of the exception is an auxiliary package source,
>which one has to select specially in /etc/apt/
>same way that one selects security updates. Up until lenny, this
>was managed as a relatively independent "Debian volatile" project
> <http://
>on the main package servers.
>
>We should ask for the libdatetime-
>the volatile route, the same way the tzdata package does.
>[...]
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.