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core-updates: Fix time zone bug in `date` 8.26

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 26238 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#26238: core-updates: Fix time zone bug in `date` 8.26
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 16:01:14 -0400

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On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 04:12:40PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:
> I think ‘coreutils-final’ doesn’t need the replacement because the
> ‘coreutils’ package that we get on GuixSD or when typing ‘guix package
> -i coreutils’ is not ‘coreutils-final’.

Right.

> ‘-final’ is only used as an implicit input of ‘gnu-build-system’, where
> the ‘date’ bug is arguably not a problem.
> 
> So for ‘coreutils-final’, I’d just do:
> 
>   (replacement #f)
> 
> WDYT?

I adapted the example of diffutils-boot0 in the attached patch.

> For good measure, ‘coreutils-minimal’ should also have:
> 
>   (source (package-source coreutils/fixed))
> 
> so that it gets the fix (nothing depends on ‘coreutils-minimal’, so
> there’s no need for a graft here.)

Ah, thanks for pointing this out.

I've attached a revised patch.

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