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Date:      Sun, 12 Aug 2018 20:46:22 +0800
From:      "Philip Paeps" <philip@freebsd.org>
To:        "Eitan Adler" <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-vendor@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r337683 - in vendor/tzdb: . dist
Message-ID:  <C46D83F4-3C26-4008-9396-2BE8DF7BCBDC@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180812124034.GB30769@rincewind.trouble.is>
References:  <201808121210.w7CCAXB7029893@repo.freebsd.org> <20180812124034.GB30769@rincewind.trouble.is>

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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

-- 
Philip Paeps
Senior Reality Engineer
Ministry of Information



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