From e1884e78691b3795d75429476e8f798ccc82d4da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Le Marec - Pasquet <kiorky@cryptelium.net>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 08:41:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Make pytz a strong requirement

---
 CHANGELOG.rst            | 1 +
 README.rst               | 8 ++++++++
 requirements/base.txt    | 1 +
 src/croniter/croniter.py | 4 ++++
 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 19d984b..0e4fe5d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Changelog
 ------------------
 
 - Add Python 3.12 support [rafsaf]
+- Make major release instructions [kiorky]
 
 
 1.4.1 (2023-06-15)
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 04d095e..73a3c43 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -241,6 +241,14 @@ What they evaluate to depends on whether you supply hash_id: no hash_id correspo
     ============ ============ ================
 
 
+Upgrading
+===========
+
+To 2.0.0
+++++++++++
+
+- Install or upgrade pytz by using version specified  requirements/base.txt if you have it installed `<=2021.1`.
+
 Develop this package
 ====================
 
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 14d6dd6..cc91362 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 python_dateutil
+pytz>2021.1
 -e .
diff --git a/src/croniter/croniter.py b/src/croniter/croniter.py
index ef77ca7..9fe857f 100644
--- a/src/croniter/croniter.py
+++ b/src/croniter/croniter.py
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@
 import binascii
 import random
 
+# as pytz is optional in thirdparty libs but we need it for good support under
+# python2, just test that it's well installed
+import pytz  # noqa
+
 try:
     from collections import OrderedDict
 except ImportError: