Subject: Re: [bug#31484] [PATCH] gnu: icu4c: Patch zoneinfo directory.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Sat, 19 May 2018 22:21:42 +0200

Hello,

Christopher Baines <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Replace the hardcoded /usr/share/zoneinfo file with a reference to the tzdata
> package.
>
> * gnu/packages/icu4c.scm (icu4c)[inputs]: Add tzdata.
> [arguments]: Add a patch-zoneinfo-directory phase.

Good catch.

I wonder if icu4c should instead depend on ‘tzdata-for-tests’, which is
changed less frequently to avoid full rebuilds?  Maybe Leo can comment.

I hope icu4c also honors the TZDIR environment variable, which would
allow users to have it refer to the latest version.  Do you know if
that’s the case?

Last thing: this would probably be for ‘core-updates-next’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.