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

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
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 23:26:33 +0200

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Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:

> 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.

Maybe grafting 8.27 is better. It would be good to build it out on a new
core-updates branch quickly to catch any problems it might introduce.

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