[tz] [PATCH] Don't put leapseconds.awk in tzdata tarball.

Alan Barrett apb at cequrux.com
Sun Aug 10 08:31:32 UTC 2014


On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Paul Eggert wrote:
> This harmless bug was introduced in release 2014f, which 
> distributed leapseconds.awk in both the code and the data 
> tarballs.  It's code, so it should be in the code tarball.

I'd prefer to let tzdata contain all zic inputs, and all scripts used
to help maintain the zic inputs.  If leapseconds.awk is not in tzdata
then it's unnecessarily difficult to re-generate leapseconds from
leap-seconds.list, or to verify that leapseconds and leap-seconds.list
are in sync.  The question should not be "is it code?", but rather "is
it necessary or useful to people who use tzdata but don't use tzcode?"

I think that tzcode should contain all code that's intended to be
installed on a target system, but it's not necessary for it to contain
scripts that are intended to be used only by maintainers, and not
installed for use by end users.

While we are talking about what belongs in each tarball, I'd also 
like to ask that the NEWS file be included in tzdata.

--apb (Alan Barrett)


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