[tz] Print zdump and zic program names in --version output

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at systematicsw.ab.ca
Sat Nov 10 02:15:20 UTC 2012


On 2012-11-09 17:20, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 11/09/2012 03:54 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
>> why do we care about GNU standards?
>
> We're talking about the --version option,
> which is a GNUish thing.

GNU standard you cited:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/_002d_002dversion.html
also requires copyright(s) and licence(s) information to be appended.

Package could also be named timezone or zoneinfo if preferred.
IMHO tzcode is a distribution artifact, and useless without tzdata.


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