[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#422400: taskjuggler: FTBFS: Test Timezone.tjp failed!

[Fathi Boudra]

hi,

This is definitely caused by a different behaviour of tzset(). The problem 
occurs in Utility::setTimezone(). tzset should copy an unknown timezone into 
tzname[0]. Looks like glibc tzset no longer does that. Not sure why Uli would 
change that. Might be a bug.

The patch submitted-date-and-unknown-tz.diff introduced in Sid glibc since 
2.5-1 causes taskjuggler FTBFS:

  * patches/any/submitted-date-and-unknown-tz.diff: fix date output in case of
    an unknown timezone in $TZ, submitted upstream as #4028.
    Closes: #55648, #119540, #269238.

The submitted upstream bug report:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4028

The proposed patch was rejected and upstream closed the bug as "resolved/ 
wontfix":
> The existing behavior is as valid as any other.  Any change will disrupt
> things, though. No change.

Now, the question is what do we do ? Drop this patch like upstream does, will 
re-open 3 other debian bug reports.

Thanks to Pierre Habouzit, Aurelien Jarno and Chris Schlaeger for the 
pointers.

cheers,

Fathi