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

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Cc: 26238 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Subject: bug#26238: core-updates: Fix time zone bug in `date` 8.26
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 13:36:32 +0200

Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com> skribis:

> 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.

Let’s merge this one first.  :-)

Ludo’.

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