On 09/28/2016 11:28 AM, Howard Hinnant wrote:
The version file does not appear in the uncompressed tzdata2016g database.
It is in the tzdb-2016g.tar.lz and tzcode2016g.tar.gz tarballs, so you can grab it from there for now. I omitted it from the data tarball because it is not needed for data. This was done as part of the patch for more-accurate release numbers circulated on Sept. 5 <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-September/024054.html>. Now that you mention it, it's a good idea to put the version file into the data tarball too, as a bit of metadata info. I installed the attached patch to do that, so that in future releases the version file should be in all three tarballs. This sort of problem may help to explain why I prefer the one-tarball format. With one tarball you don't need to worry about which files go into which tarballs, and that lessens the number of distribution glitches.