Bug#660404: tzdata: Building libdatetime-timezone-perl(-data) from tzdata

[Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>]

tags 660404 - patch
thanks

Hi Gregor,

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:53:31 +0100 gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
wrote:
> Source: tzdata
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> following up on our short discussion at FOSDEM, I've now looked into the
> possibility to build the libdatetime-timezone-perl binary package from the
> tzdata source package.
> 
> The idea (I hope that matches your memories :)) was to create a new binary
> package (I've named it libdatetime-timezone-perl-tools) that contains the
> script to build the perl modules from the Olson DB data, and use this
> package/script in tzdata to build the libdatetime-timezone-perl package from
> there.

A decade has passed and libdatetime-timezone-perl still seems to ship
the timezone data. What is the current status on using tzdata in that
Perl module? I removed the patch tag since the patch would need a
refresh at least.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer