From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 33184 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2018 18:03:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 33172 invoked by uid 89); 19 Mar 2018 18:03:57 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_COUK,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:926, among X-HELO: mycogen.trantor.org.uk Message-ID: <1521482626.12178.8.camel@scaramanga.co.uk> Subject: Re: [PATCH]: update leapseconds From: Gianni Tedesco To: Joseph Myers , Paul Eggert Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:03:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: References: <1521318621.12178.2.camel@scaramanga.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00470.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 17:00 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, Paul Eggert wrote: > > > As I understand it, the leapseconds file (like most of the other > > files in the > > glibc timezone directory) is intended only for test data, and is > > not kept > > up-to-date. Perhaps this should be stated more clearly in the > > files' headers. > > > > Another possibility would be to remove these files, as purposely > > out-of-date > > files cause confusion among glibc contributors. > > Maybe move them to e.g. timezone/test-sources? (We already have > timezone/testdata for *binary* timezone files used as test inputs to > the > timezone code, so it's probably a good idea to keep the different > kinds of > test inputs separate.) Yeah, well, it's also getting shipped as part of the binary distribution, at least on ubuntu, so if it's just test data then that's weird... Gianni