[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] package/zic: bump version to 2016j

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Dec 3 15:35:10 UTC 2016


Hello,

On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 15:16:10 +0000, Martin Bark wrote:

> The release of the timezone database is split into 2 files. One is tzcode
> that we use to build zic for the host, the other is tzdata which contains
> the the actual timezone data needed for the target.  When be extract tzcode
> to build zic we have not extracted tzdata (there is no need to), however,
> recent changes to tzcode means VERSION_DEPS in Makefile depends on files
> that are only in tzdata.  This breaks building zic when only using tzcode
> as we do.
> 
> The patch removes the dependency on VERSION_DEPS because it's not necessary
> for us.  We are building released code so there is no need for dependencies
> to check if the version number needs updating which is clearly only needed
> for development.

So it really is an upstream bug? Did you try to send the patch to the
upstream developers?

> Hope that makes sense.  Sorry for the typos,  I'll resubmit with them
> corrected

No need to resend just to fix the typos, I can fix them while applying.

Thanks!

Thomas
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