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Re: Use glibc version information in zic and zdump
On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > My point is that this is not any more likely than any number of other
> > hypothetical accidents, and cluttering up .gitignore with random
> > implausible hypothetical accidents is just noise. You could equally do
> > this for any other file that has been removed from the source tree, or
> > proposed in a patch that was not committed, and it would be no more or
> > less useful.
>
> the difference is that this file is shipped in an external package that we pull
> into the tree in a semi-automated basis
It *isn't* shipped there. It's generated by the build process for that
package.
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