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. As an ex-packager (not of tzdb though) I can tell you there are lots of better things to spend time on than micro-managing your upstream's file manifest. Especially for an upstream such as tzdb, where changes in the file list are everyday occurrences. regards, tom lane