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From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>, <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: update leapseconds
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1803191659100.4537@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4cf5e94-f13d-d55a-6f6f-f26afa9307c0@cs.ucla.edu>

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 Another possibility would be to remove these files, as purposely out-of-date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.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-19 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-17 20:31 Gianni Tedesco
2018-03-18 23:59 ` Paul Eggert
2018-03-19  7:54   ` Gianni Tedesco
2018-03-19 17:00   ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2018-03-19 18:03     ` Gianni Tedesco
2018-03-19 18:08       ` Joseph Myers

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