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

[Philip Paeps]

On 2018-08-12 15:03:22 (-0700), Eitan Adler wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Aug 2018 at 05:46, Philip Paeps <philip at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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).
>
>Will do and will keep future responses on the -arch thread.

Thanks Eitan.

Philip

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Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
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