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authorDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2016-05-28 11:03:35 +0200
committerJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>2016-11-14 15:10:03 +0100
commit76277d6f6c6cbcec83a52d3b1399061326c7574e (patch)
treef0a9b0bef3cca836a9083fc2dd75aa27c1443e2d /test/integration/test-bug-618848-always-respect-user-requests
parent4ed2a17ab4334f019c00512aa54a162f0bf083c4 (diff)
accept only the expected UTC timezones in date parsing
HTTP/1.1 hardcodes GMT (RFC 7231 §7.1.1.1) and what is good enough for the internet must be good enough for us™ as we reuse the implementation internally to parse (most) dates we encounter in various places like the Release files with their Date and Valid-Until header fields. Implementing a fully timezone aware parser just feels too hard for no effective benefit as it would take 5+ years (= until LTS's are out of fashion) until a repository could use non-UTC dates and expect it to work. Not counting non-apt implementations which might or might not only want to encounter UTC here as well. As a bonus, this eliminates the use of an instance of setlocale in libapt. Closes: 819697 (cherry picked from commit 9febc2b238e1e322dce1f94ecbed46d595893b52)
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