misc/159707: Olson's timezone database is old for Russia in 7.X/8.X

[Maxim Konovalov]

The following reply was made to PR misc/159707; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim.konovalov at gmail.com>
To: konstantin.malov at kaspersky.com
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, remko at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/159707: Olson's timezone database is old for Russia in
 7.X/8.X
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:27:41 +0400 (MSD)

 On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, 12:04-0000, remko at freebsd.org wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: Olson's timezone database is old for Russia in 7.X/8.X
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: remko
 > State-Changed-When: Fri Aug 12 12:04:32 UTC 2011
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > Hello, although your idea sounds OK, we do not update the 8.x branches
 > after they had been released unless it's for security. So that means
 > that indeed 8-STABLE (RELENG_8( will receive these updates but not
 > 8.0,8.1 etc. (unless it's a new version and the releng_8 version is
 > already OK). You can however always merge the 8_stable information to
 > your local system and update it, as you mention in your report.
 
 Or use misc/zoneinfo port.
 
 -- 
 Maxim Konovalov