>From 0c8cac40a6ee69e106f3b034624890b98cad5b01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:15:27 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] Put dummy pacificnew into rearguard tarball Problem reported by Mike Cullinan in: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-October/029309.html * Makefile (tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.tar.gz): Put an empty pacificnew file into the rearguard tarball. * NEWS: Mention this. --- Makefile | 6 +++++- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 28972c6..95f0a06 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1022,10 +1022,14 @@ tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.tar.gz: rearguard.zi set-timestamps.out done sed '1s/$$/-rearguard/' \ tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.dir/version + : The dummy pacificnew pacifies TZUpdater 2.3.1 and earlier. + touch -md 2020-10-12T22:53:00Z \ + tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.dir/pacificnew touch -cmr version tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.dir/version LC_ALL=C && export LC_ALL && \ (cd tzdata$(VERSION)-rearguard.dir && \ - tar $(TARFLAGS) -cf - $(COMMON) $(DATA) $(MISC) | \ + tar $(TARFLAGS) -cf - \ + $(COMMON) $(DATA) $(MISC) pacificnew | \ gzip $(GZIPFLAGS)) >$@.out mv $@.out $@ diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 298ad4d..87d68d9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,12 +6,19 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Fiji starts DST later than usual, on 2020-12-20. Changes to future timestamps + Fiji will start DST on 2020-12-20, instead of 2020-11-08 as previously predicted. DST will still end on 2021-01-17. (Thanks to Raymond Kumar and Alan Mintz.) Assume for now that the later-than-usual start date is a one-time departure from the recent pattern. + Changes to build procedure + + Rearguard tarballs now contain an empty file pacificnew. + Some older downstream software expects this file to exist. + (Problem reported by Mike Cullinan.) + Release 2020b - 2020-10-06 18:35:04 -0700 -- 2.25.1