[tz] Are tzdata2016g & tzdata-latest missing the VERSION file?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2016-09-30 13:38, Robert Elz wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 10:35:03 -0700, Paul Eggert  wrote:
>> This is what we've always done for the tz project.
> The code gets updated mch less frequently than the data (it is considerably
> more work to merge) which is one reason I am not much a fan of the combined
> tarball approach - mostly the code is just trash to discard.)

Most distributions I've looked at ship zic, zdump, and tzselect as part of a
libc related base utils package. They selectively make and install those and
their man pages, and sometimes some docs, using their own package build scripts
to the standard places.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada