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[Olivier Mengué <olivier.mengue@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: libdatetime-timezone-perl

This package provides TimeZone information to Perl programs using the DateTime module.
So this module should be updated with the same policy as the 'tzdata' package, which means being volatile. See http://www.debian.org/volatile/


See this message on the DateTime mailing list as a reference:
http://marc.info/?l=perl-datetime&m=129848974132157&w=2
>[...]
>Obviously timezone data is liable to
>change quickly, and the regular Debian processes for stability of code
>aren't appropriate.  It turns out that Debian do make exceptions to the
>usual stability policy for necessarily-volatile packages.  Their tzdata
>package is subject to such an exception.
>
>The nature of the exception is an auxiliary package source,
>which one has to select specially in /etc/apt/sources.list, in the
>same way that one selects security updates.  Up until lenny, this
>was managed as a relatively independent "Debian volatile" project
> <http://www.debian.org/volatile/>.  From squeeze onwards, it's hosted
>on the main package servers.
>
>We should ask for the libdatetime-timezone-perl package to routinely go
>the volatile route, the same way the tzdata package does.
>[...]

** Affects: libdatetime-timezone-perl (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: perl

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/724044

Title:
  Mark this package as volatile