Subject: Re: bug#26238: core-updates: Fix time zone bug in `date` 8.26

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 16:55:52 -0400

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:29:38PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> I don't object to the graft, as it does sound like a serious regression.
> My reaction was mostly a "flight" response after seeing the gnulib patch
> that this depends upon (the parse_datetime2 API change).
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=4e6e16b3f43ce96302b1e52e48730c1f15e18c14
> 
> Are you working on backporting it?

Ah, I failed to understand that it would be required to backport the
gnulib commit as well. That does look hairy.