Comment 6 for bug 271680

Hi Gustavo,

in http://bugs.debian.org/416204 and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271680 we requested that the
python-dateutil package in Debian and Ubuntu should use the system
tzdata files instead of the shipped obsolete copy. This will keep a
single reference of the pretty volatile tzdata (which is updated
regularly in stable releases) instead of spreading it over multiple
packages.

I made a patch which prefers /usr/share/zoneinfo/ over the internal
tarball. In the Ubuntu package (just uploaded to intrepid) I don't
ship the tarball any more, because we can rely on tzdata being
present. The upstream patch merely prefers looking there first.

Deleting the tarball breaks the test suite, and applying the patch
makes it work again. Also, the change is pretty unintrusive, so I
think I didn't screw it up too much.

Thank you for considering,

Martin

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