Re: [PATCH]: update leapseconds

[Gianni Tedesco <gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk>]

On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 17:00 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> > As I understand it, the leapseconds file (like most of the other
> > files in the
> > glibc timezone directory) is intended only for test data, and is
> > not kept
> > up-to-date. Perhaps this should be stated more clearly in the
> > files' headers.
> > 
> > Another possibility would be to remove these files, as purposely
> > out-of-date
> > files cause confusion among glibc contributors.
> 
> Maybe move them to e.g. timezone/test-sources?  (We already have 
> timezone/testdata for *binary* timezone files used as test inputs to
> the 
> timezone code, so it's probably a good idea to keep the different
> kinds of 
> test inputs separate.)

Yeah, well, it's also getting shipped as part of the binary
distribution, at least on ubuntu, so if it's just test data then that's
weird...

Gianni