[Bug 1222345] Re: Wrong DST dates in Israel

[Margarita Manterola]

I have prepared packages for precise, quantal and raring.  They are available from:
http://www.marga.com.ar/ubuntu/tzdata/precise/
http://www.marga.com.ar/ubuntu/tzdata/quantal/
http://www.marga.com.ar/ubuntu/tzdata/raring/

The new orig.tar.gz was downloaded from:
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2013d.tar.gz

I followed the SRU instructions each time, by getting the latest package
in each of the distros and calling uupdate.

I'll attach the debdiffs, but they are quite big, given that the
versions were quite behind.


** Patch added: "debdiff for the precise package"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/1222345/+attachment/3810658/+files/tzdata-precise.diff

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Title:
  Wrong DST dates in Israel

Status in “tzdata” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “tzdata” source package in Precise:
  In Progress
Status in “tzdata” source package in Quantal:
  In Progress
Status in “tzdata” source package in Raring:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  DST start/end times were changed during 2013, DST should only end in
  more than a month from the actual change happened.

  In order to solve this bug the tzdata package should be updated to the
  most recent version (currently tzdata 2013d-1) which contains the fix.

  Please notice the tzdata has no dependencies but tzdata-java which
  also needs to be updated (both versions are already updated in Debian
  testing).

  This is pretty urgent, releases not affected:
  Saucy Salamander (13.10), all others are affected.

  The change is described in the following diff:
  http://launchpadlibrarian.net/146460855/tzdata_2013c-2ubuntu1_2013d-1ubuntu1.diff.gz

  The updated packages from Debian were installed in my personal system
  (12.04) and nothing seems broken so far, the package deployment was
  successful.

  
  SRU Template starts here:
  [Impact] 

   * DST ends prematurely causing Ubuntu systems to work with a 1 hour
  diff, the actual change should take place on October 27th.

   * tzdata was updated accordingly, time difference could cause many
  issues.

   * tzdata was changes this June, fix was included in this release by
  Ephraim Silverberg  on 2013-06-27.

  [Test Case]

   * All of the affected systems are one hour behind.

  [Regression Potential]

   * This change could possibly solve other issues as well (regarding
  different timezone changes around the world).

   * I only have 12.04 system so I checked the packages on my system and
  nothing is broken AFAICT.

   * Please notice tzdata and tzdata-java are dependent of one another
  but besides that they have no other dependencies.

  [Other Info]
   
   * Anything else you think is useful to include
   * Anticipate questions from users, SRU, +1 maintenance, security teams and the Technical Board
   * and address these questions in advance

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