[PATCH 1/3 v3] Cygwin: tzcode resync: basics

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun 10 15:53, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-06-09 22:37, Mark Geisert wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Brian Inglis wrote:
> >> On 2020-05-26 02:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> On May 26 00:09, Mark Geisert wrote:
> >>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>>>> On May 22 02:32, Mark Geisert wrote:
> >>>>> On May 25 14:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> The tzcode package needs updated to get fixes into zic and zdump.
> >> Also tzdata was maintained by Yaakov.
> >>
> >> Corinna, would you like to keep tzcode co-maintained with Yaakov?
> >>
> >> Or Mark, would you like to ITA tzcode and/or tzdata to keep it in sync with the
> >> base code?
> >>
> >> Or would you like me to ITA tzcode and/or tzdata?
> >> I currently check tzdb weekly in cron to download updates for my own interests.
> >> I could add cygport builds to that job.
> > 
> > This "tzcode" patch I did was a one-shot task just getting some time zone
> > handling code within the Cygwin DLL up to date.  I don't know if there's any
> > overlap between what I worked on and the tzcode+tzdata packages.  Eh, just the
> > internal binary copy of a particular tzdata file which should be kept up to
> > date: /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules.  Dunno how often that changes though.
> > 
> > It's fine with me for you to take over both tzcode+tzdata if nobody else
> > objects.  Sounds like you have a regular schedule for looking over updates which
> > is more than I have :-).
> 
> Thanks Mark,
> 
> I'll wait to see if we hear from Corinna or ITA if no response soon.

You don't have to ask me to ITA packages, really :)


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer