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Bug#760982: openjdk-8 needs time zone data

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From: Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:34:24 +0200
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Package: src:openjdk-8
Version: 8u40~b04-2
Severity: serious
Tags: sid jessie

https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2014/08/msg00017.html

5. Implement a java.time.zone.ZoneRulesProvider [3] that reads the TZif2
files installed by the tzdata package in /usr/share/zoneinfo. This would
render the tzdata-java package obsolete in the long term. GNU ClassPath
has a TZif2 parser [4] that could be used as a starting point.

[4]
https://github.com/jatovm/classpath/blob/master/gnu/java/util/ZoneInfo.java