[tz] technical details for today's code and data release

[Andreas Schwab]

Kevin Lyda <kevin at ie.suberic.net> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk> wrote:
>> It's probably useful to tag the release before checking out.  I suppose at
>> the moment the tag would need to combine the tzcode and tzdata version
>> numbers, e.g. "tzcodeAAAAb_tzdataCCCCd".  Or if you want the combined tags
>> to increase monotonically, something like "tzYYYYz_codeAAAAb_dataCCCCd"
>> where YYYYz is the maximum of "AAAAb" and "CCCCd".  You could have
>> additional tags with just the tzcode version and just the tzdata version.
>
> To that end I'd be happy to generate tags (with the original release
> comments) for the repository in github.  Would there be an interest in
> that?

The tags should be signed as well.

Andreas.

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