From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 83770 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2018 17:00:28 -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 77981 invoked by uid 89); 19 Mar 2018 17:00:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:D*co.uk, among X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:00:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Paul Eggert CC: Gianni Tedesco , Subject: Re: [PATCH]: update leapseconds In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1521318621.12178.2.camel@scaramanga.co.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-02.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.2) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00465.txt.bz2 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 Another possibility would be to remove these files, as purposely out-of-date 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