[PATCH] Fix all the misspellings -- BZ 25337

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Mon May 22 23:11:28 GMT 2023


On 5/22/23 14:24, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 21 May 2023, Paul Pluzhnikov via Libc-alpha wrote:
> 
>>   timezone/africa                               |  2 +-
>>   timezone/antarctica                           |  2 +-
>>   timezone/asia                                 |  2 +-
>>   timezone/australasia                          |  6 +--
>>   timezone/europe                               |  8 +--
>>   timezone/southamerica                         |  4 +-
> 
> Making local changes to these files (test inputs from an old upstream
> version of tzdata) is questionable.  In general, check against
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/SharedSourceFiles and
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Regeneration for files that are either
> taken verbatim from upstream sources or are generated files.

For what it's worth, those spelling errors were corrected upstream some 
time ago. It might be simpler (for someone who knows how those test 
cases work) to reimport the current tzdb release than to worry about 
maintaining the old tzdata copy. In the meantime I'd leave those files 
alone.


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