On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, Tom Lane wrote:
Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> writes:
Expecting distributors to change their packaging scripts, except when you make a change which breaks the process, won't happen: some distros package only the .tab files and the zic binaries, some include the changelog, Debian etc. still include leap-seconds.list, others include leapseconds, some include tzdata.zi, some include various selections of uppercase named and .html docs, none include version.
This seems unduly pessimistic to me. If zic writes an additional file into the target directory, that would probably automatically get included by most packagers --- it'd look no different from a new zone file. And I doubt many packagers are left who haven't set things up to just automatically include new zone files. ...
NetBSD would not automatically install an additional file. The build process is very explicit about which files get copied to the build's destination directory; it is also very selective in what files it includes in the .tgz "distribution set" files. Manual intervention is needed to update these steps. +------------------+--------------------------+----------------------------+ | Paul Goyette | PGP Key fingerprint: | E-mail addresses: | | (Retired) | FA29 0E3B 35AF E8AE 6651 | paul at whooppee dot com | | Kernel Developer | 0786 F758 55DE 53BA 7731 | pgoyette at netbsd dot org | +------------------+--------------------------+----------------------------+