[SCM] Debian packaging of libdatetime-timezone-perl branch, master, updated. debian/1.40-1+2011l-4-g5cc4064

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Tue Oct 18 15:20:51 UTC 2011


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 270a350e339b932bb7e2234c2e03c3da88d818d0
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa at debian.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 18 17:05:56 2011 +0200

    Update debian/README.source.

diff --git a/debian/README.source b/debian/README.source
index a9f5122..446a89f 100644
--- a/debian/README.source
+++ b/debian/README.source
@@ -16,29 +16,29 @@ database version number 2011c. So the Debian version number of the first
 
 How to update this package *normally*
 -------------------------------------
-* Use 'svn-upgrade --uscan' as you would for any other package.
+* Use your favourite git tools as you would for any other package.
 * Stick the Olson version number in the Debian version as demonstrated
-for older versions in the Debian changelog.
+  for older versions in the Debian changelog.
 * In the Debian changelog amend the 'New upstream release' comment
-to mention the Olson database version number.
+  to mention the Olson database version number.
 
 How to work out what the olson database version is/should be
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 * Every time zone module (i.e. anything below DateTime/TimeZone)
-has an 'olson_version' method that will return what the olson 
-database version in our code is.
+  has an 'olson_version' method that will return what the olson 
+  database version in our code is.
 * To see the actual current Olsdon database version number see
-ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/. Look for the tarfile which will
-have the version number embedded in its name.
+  ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/. Look for the tarfile which will
+  have the version number embedded in its name.
 
 How to update the time zone database
 ------------------------------------
 1. Change package version number and db version number, e.g. 0.68-2+2007x
-2. Make sure that you have the Locale::Country module installed. It is currently
-not in Debian so you will have to do it directly from CPAN.
+2. Make sure that you have the Locale::Country module installed. It's in 
+   perl-modules since 5.12, if tools/parse_olson needs a newer version you can
+   either comment out the version there or grab a newer one from the CPAN.
 3. The steps below will modify the upstream source so you need to be familiar
-with quilt. Create a quilt patch that includes every file in the
-lib/DateTime/TimeZone/ directory.
+   with quilt. Create a quilt patch that includes every file in the
+   lib/DateTime/TimeZone/ directory.
 4. Call script: debian/tools/update-tzdata.sh
 5. Refresh the patch and add the appropriate headers and continue.
-

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