Drop dependency of dist target on ChangeLog
Commit Message
This looks good, except for the change to timezone/README:
> +Please check the ChangeLog files in ChangeLog.old directory at the top level
> +for the version of the tzcode and tzdata packages.
It's awkward to have to paw through ChangeLog.old for version numbers,
plus when I took the trouble to actually do that I found that the
version numbers there were incorrect. So I propose the attached patch
instead.
Comments
Paul Eggert wrote:
> It's awkward to have to paw through ChangeLog.old for version numbers, plus
> when I took the trouble to actually do that I found that the version numbers
> there were incorrect. So I propose the attached patch instead.
>
> * timezone/version: New file, also taken from tzcode2018i.
> * timezone/README: Reword so that people needn't paw through
> old ChangeLog files to see which version we're using, a process
> that is error-prone. Update an obsolescent URL.
> ---
> timezone/README | 14 ++++++++------
> timezone/version | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 timezone/version
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Thanks.
On 09/01/20 7:26 am, Paul Eggert wrote:
> This looks good, except for the change to timezone/README:
>
>> +Please check the ChangeLog files in ChangeLog.old directory at the
>> top level
>> +for the version of the tzcode and tzdata packages.
>
> It's awkward to have to paw through ChangeLog.old for version numbers,
> plus when I took the trouble to actually do that I found that the
> version numbers there were incorrect. So I propose the attached patch
> instead.
Perfect, thanks. I'll commit my change without this doc update and you
can commit this one.
Siddhesh
From 3c69ed681a2a2a290fabad120137d20d379a03dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 17:48:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Update timezone/README
* timezone/version: New file, also taken from tzcode2018i.
* timezone/README: Reword so that people needn't paw through
old ChangeLog files to see which version we're using, a process
that is error-prone. Update an obsolescent URL.
---
timezone/README | 14 ++++++++------
timezone/version | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 timezone/version
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
The files
- zic.c zdump.c tzfile.h private.h tzselect.ksh
+ zic.c zdump.c tzfile.h private.h tzselect.ksh version
come from the tzcode package by Arthur David Olson et.al.
+The 'version' file specifies which tzcode version was used.
The files
africa antarctica asia australasia europe
@@ -8,14 +9,15 @@ The files
backward systemv solar87 solar88 solar89
iso3166.tab zone.tab leapseconds yearistype
come from the tzdata package by Arthur David Olson et.al.
-
-Please check the ChangeLog files in the top level directory for the
-version of the tzcode and tzdata packages.
+except that its 'yearistype.sh' file is renamed to 'yearistype'.
+These tzdata files were taken from tzdata 2009i and have not been
+updated since, as they do not affect a glibc installation and are
+present only for regression testing.
Please also see: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/SharedSourceFiles
-These packages may be found at ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/. Commentary
-should be addressed to tz@iana.org.
+These packages may be found at https://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/.
+Commentary should be addressed to tz@iana.org.
The subdirectory testdata contains manually edited data files for
regression testing purposes.
new file mode 100644
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2018i
--
2.24.1