Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST 435
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from the does-anyone-really-know-what-time-it-is dept.
from the does-anyone-really-know-what-time-it-is dept.
Jasper Bryant-Greene writes "Although a tzdata release that includes New Zealand's recent DST changes (2007f) has been out for some time, Debian are refusing to push the update from testing into the current stable distribution, codenamed Etch, on the basis that 'it's not a security bug.' This means that unless New Zealand sysadmins install the package manually, pull the package from testing, or alter the timezone to 'GMT-13' manually, all systems running Debian Etch in New Zealand currently have the incorrect time, as DST went into effect this morning. As one of the last comments in the bug report says, 'even Microsoft are not this silly.' The final comment (at this writing), from madcoder, says 'The package sits in volatile for months. Please take your troll elsewhere.'"
In defense of the Debian team... (Score:2, Funny)
OB (Score:5, Funny)
Re:OB (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So there are no time based security attacks? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Google Groups in Konqueror (Score:5, Funny)
Firstly, this is offtopic and has nothing to do with Debian. Secondly either Google or the KHTML team must have fixed it because I couldn't reproduce the bug in Konqueror.
When you say they've lost you as a user, do you just mean Konqueror? If so, is there anything we can do to lose you as a Linux user as well?
Re:This points to a wider problem... (Score:3, Funny)
Absolutely. There is nothing more wasteful of energy than the lengthy overtimes, fourth downs and tiny fields used by the NFL. Playing by CFL rules is just good for everybody.
Re:So there are no time based security attacks? (Score:4, Funny)
The way it was explained to me, Debian is the stale distribution.
Re:Volatile versus update (Score:1, Funny)
This was a good post, but it's a pity that your command of English is so limited that this gratuitous vulgarity is the best adjective you could choose. It doesn't clarify or improve the sentence. There are innumerable ways you could have written this sentence with more punch, wit, and style.
Re:Volatile versus update (Score:4, Funny)
This was a good post, but it's a pity that your command of English is so limited that this gratuitous vulgarity is the best adjective you could choose.
In the very unlikely case that after 3 sex abstinence years of development
That's what you meant, right.. At least I think you did
Re:Volatile versus update (Score:4, Funny)