<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Howard Hinnant <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:howard.hinnant@gmail.com" target="_blank">howard.hinnant@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> The version file does not appear in the uncompressed tzdata2016g database. This is hurting my ability to report the version of the database to my clients. Can we please put a version file in the database?<br>
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</span>Though I suppose I could scrape the version number out of the NEWS file…</blockquote></div><br>Why can't you deduce the version from the name of the file? But I agree: non-git based distributions should include the generated version file. </div></div>