svn commit: r337683 - in vendor/tzdb: . dist

[Philip Paeps]

On 2018-08-12 20:40:34 (+0800), Philip Paeps wrote:

> On 2018-08-12 12:10:33 (+0000), Eitan Adler wrote:
>> Author: eadler
>> Date: Sun Aug 12 12:10:33 2018
>> New Revision: 337683
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/337683
>>
>> Log:
>>  vendor/tzdb: reimport IANA database+code in a standard layout
>>
>>  I am using a new directory since the layout of both the vendor area 
>> and
>>  contrib/ need to be changed.
>>
>
> I would have *strongly* preferred you to import tzcode separately from 
> tzdata so as not to frustrate future updates of the tzdata.
>
> The IANA tzdb project releases tzdata and tzcode in separate tarballs.
>
> tzdata updates happen comparatively frequently and we like to issue 
> errata notices for them.  tzcode doesn't change very often.
>
> Would you mind backing this out and importing tzcode separately?

To clarify: please import the tzcode tarball into vendor/tzcode 
(https://data.iana.org/time-zones/releases/tzcode2018e.tar.gz) and svn 
rm vendor/tzdb.

The tzdata code is kept in vendor/tzdata and is up to date with the 
latest upstream (and I intend to keep it that way, getting errata 
notices issued as necessary).

Many thanks.

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information