[Buildroot] Suggestion: consider tzdata updates for LTS

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Thu Apr 2 15:12:26 UTC 2020


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > I'd like to propose that updates to the tzdata package are made to the
 > active LTS branch. Indeed, even "old" systems that are in production
 > want to stay up-to-date with timezone information changes. Some country
 > or geographic areas once in a while change their time zone rules, and
 > it makes sense to keep systems in the field update with that.

 > As I believe tzdata updates are pretty low risk, I would suggest that
 > we systematically backport updates to this package to the currently
 > maintained LTS branch.

 > What do you think ?

Makes sense to me. I will take care of pending tzdata updates during my
next stable-update.

Please ping me in case I miss any other important updates, thanks.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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