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

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:54:10 +0200

Morning!

Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Hi Leo!
>>
>> [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>>
>>> Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> skribis:
>>>
>>>> From 466a0ebad18ee5e38f280acf19ab19aadffa2206 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>> From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
>>>> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 12:18:21 -0400
>>>> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: coreutils: Fix a time-zone bug in date 8.26.
>>>>
>>>> * gnu/packages/base.scm (coreutils)[replacement]: New field.
>>>> (coreutils/fixed): New variable.
>>>> (coreutils-minimal)[source]: Use the source of coreutils/fixed.
>>>> * gnu/packages/commencement.scm (coreutils-final)[replacement]: New field.
>>>> * gnu/packages/patches/coreutils-fix-time-zone-conversion.patch: New file.
>>>> * gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
>>>
>>> LGTM, thanks!
>>
>> Was there anything wrong with this patch?  Otherwise I still think it’s
>> worth applying to ‘master’.
>
> It depends on this gnulib patch, which does not apply cleanly and needs
> a rather difficult backport:
>
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=4e6e16b3f43ce96302b1e52e48730c1f15e18c14

Oh right, sorry for being sloppy.

A while back you suggested using directly 8.27 as the replacement:

  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26238#32

I think it would be a good idea.

Thoughts?

Ludo’.