From patchwork Thu Jan 9 01:56:23 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Paul Eggert X-Patchwork-Id: 37273 Received: (qmail 107483 invoked by alias); 9 Jan 2020 01:56:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Delivered-To: mailing list libc-alpha@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 107463 invoked by uid 89); 9 Jan 2020 01:56:28 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-15.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, GIT_PATCH_0, GIT_PATCH_1, GIT_PATCH_2, GIT_PATCH_3, SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=africa, asia, europe, commentary X-HELO: zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop dependency of dist target on ChangeLog To: Siddhesh Poyarekar Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, carlos@redhat.com, joseph@codesourcery.com References: <20200108085326.93010-1-siddhesh@sourceware.org> From: Paul Eggert Message-ID: Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 17:56:23 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200108085326.93010-1-siddhesh@sourceware.org> 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. Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder From 3c69ed681a2a2a290fabad120137d20d379a03dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert 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 diff --git a/timezone/README b/timezone/README index fc50f1399f..da814e3bca 100644 --- a/timezone/README +++ b/timezone/README @@ -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. diff --git a/timezone/version b/timezone/version new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..63f58006ee --- /dev/null +++ b/timezone/version @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +2018i -- 2.24.1