Debian Refuses To Push Timezone Update For NZ DST

Jasper Bryant-Greene writes "Although a tzdata release that includes New Zealand's recent DST changes (2007f) has been out for some time, Debian are refusing to push the update from testing into the current stable distribution, codenamed Etch, on the basis that 'it's not a security bug.' This means that unless New Zealand sysadmins install the package manually, pull the package from testing, or alter the timezone to 'GMT-13' manually, all systems running Debian Etch in New Zealand currently have the incorrect time, as DST went into effect this morning. As one of the last comments in the bug report says, 'even Microsoft are not this silly.' The final comment (at this writing), from madcoder, says 'The package sits in volatile for months. Please take your troll elsewhere.'"

Comments

In defense of the Debian team...

[Anonymous Coward]

... maybe it just isn't time.

OB

[Hognoxious]

This means that unless New Zealand sysadmins install the package manually

Imagine the overtime if both of them had to come in on a Saturday morning!

Re:OB

[BladeMelbourne]

Their sheep will be so lonely.

Re:So there are no time based security attacks?

[ozric99]

No, see we take fractions of a penny from each transaction and put them all into one account...

Re:Google Groups in Konqueror

[Slashcrap]

This isn't an isolated incident either. You cannot browse Google Groups in Konqueror. In the bug report they legitimately argue that it's Google's fault for not adhering to standards, but they still lost me as a user, and undoubtedly others also. http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140531 [kde.org]

Firstly, this is offtopic and has nothing to do with Debian. Secondly either Google or the KHTML team must have fixed it because I couldn't reproduce the bug in Konqueror.

When you say they've lost you as a user, do you just mean Konqueror? If so, is there anything we can do to lose you as a Linux user as well?

Re:This points to a wider problem...

[Minwee]

if you want to save energy, there are better things to mandate -- CFL usage

Absolutely. There is nothing more wasteful of energy than the lengthy overtimes, fourth downs and tiny fields used by the NFL. Playing by CFL rules is just good for everybody.

Re:So there are no time based security attacks?

[ozbird]

Debian is considered the stable distribution.

The way it was explained to me, Debian is the stale distribution.

Re:Volatile versus update

[Anonymous Coward]

In the very unlikely case that after 3 fucking years of development

This was a good post, but it's a pity that your command of English is so limited that this gratuitous vulgarity is the best adjective you could choose. It doesn't clarify or improve the sentence. There are innumerable ways you could have written this sentence with more punch, wit, and style.

Fuck you.

Re:Volatile versus update

[suv4x4]

In the very unlikely case that after 3 fucking years of development

This was a good post, but it's a pity that your command of English is so limited that this gratuitous vulgarity is the best adjective you could choose. Well, I fixed it for you:

In the very unlikely case that after 3 sex abstinence years of development

That's what you meant, right.. At least I think you did :P ?

Re:Volatile versus update

[chris_eineke]

Hehe. Yeah, those fuckers. :)