* Makefile (check_mild): Depend on new check. (news.ck): New check. * NEWS: Reword to pass check. --- Makefile | 8 +++++++- NEWS | 2 +- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 1e0a5903..c0dde5be 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -913,7 +913,7 @@ tzselect: tzselect.ksh version check: check_mild back.ck now.ck check_mild: check_web check_zishrink \ character-set.ck white-space.ck links.ck mainguard.ck \ - name-lengths.ck slashed-abbrs.ck sorted.ck \ + name-lengths.ck news.ck slashed-abbrs.ck sorted.ck \ tables.ck ziguard.ck tzs.ck # True if UTF8_LOCALE does not work; @@ -1083,6 +1083,12 @@ zishrink-posix.ck zishrink-right.ck: \ rm -fr $@d t-$@d shrunk-$@d touch $@ +# Check that NEWS has data release versions and dates in reverse order. +news.ck: NEWS + grep '^Release [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' NEWS | LC_ALL=C sort -cru + sed -n '/ -0000$$/!s/^Release [^ ]*//p' NEWS|LC_ALL=C sort -cru + touch $@ + clean_misc: rm -fr *.ckd *.dir rm -f *.ck *.core *.o *.out *.t core core.* \ diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ea52e67e..fb1ced71 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6666,7 +6666,7 @@ few (e.g., code2012c-data2012d) have tarballs with mixed version numbers. Recent releases also come in an experimental format consisting of a single tarball tzdb-R.tar.lz with extra data. -Release timestamps are taken from the release's commit (for newer, +A release's timestamp is taken from the release's commit (for newer, Git-based releases), from the newest file in the tarball (for older releases, where this info is available) or from the email announcing the release (if all else fails; these are marked with a time zone -- 2.51.0