[tz] Please remove tzdata2018f

Marcos Passos marcospassos.com at gmail.com
Fri Feb 22 01:17:11 UTC 2019


*a few months ago

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 22:14 Marcos Passos <marcospassos.com at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Stephen can confirm it,  but I built all versions since 2018 using JSR-310
> a few months and the result was correct.
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 21:55 Philip Paeps <philip at trouble.is> wrote:
>
>> On 2019-02-21 16:31:39 (+0900), Ankur Rana wrote:
>> > While doing tzdata upgrade to version 2018f
>>
>> Note that you should really be upgrading to 2018i, which is the latest
>> version.
>>
>> > java.lang.Exception: Failed while parsing file '/tmp/tz.tmp/asia' on
>> > line 1842 'Rule      Japan 1948  1951  -     Sep   Sat>=8      25:00 0
>> >     S'
>>
>> Java is known to be broken with respect to the last ten years or so of
>> changes to the tzdb data format.  You'll need to generate "rearguard"
>> format data to feed to the Java updater.
>>
>> Paul also helpfully provides rearguard tarballs on his webpage
>> https://web.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/tz/release/.
>>
>> You can easily generate those yourself by running make
>> rearguard_tarballs on the distribution from iana.org.
>>
>> > To avoid any reoccurrence of same, would it be possible to prevent the
>> > tzdata version 2018f from downloading on iana site?
>>
>> It seems silly to pull one release from an archive going back to 1993
>> because one third-party implementation (even if it's a popular one)
>> cannot cope with the data format.
>>
>> Philip
>>
>> --
>> Philip Paeps
>> Senior Reality Engineer
>> Ministry of Information
>>
>
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