On 2024-05-09 00:57:38 (+0800), Paul Eggert via tz wrote:

On 2024-05-08 09:24, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

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What do you think of moving the pages in the tzdb repository into
man/man*/ directories?  I see your repository is perfectly flat, so I
don't know if there are strong reasons for that, or if it's just
innertia.

To be fair, inertia itself is a strong reason....

I wouldn't mind renaming the man pages, though I'd get rid of the 
"new" prefixes while we're at it. However, I worry that other 
downstream users would be adversely affected. Perhaps others could 
chime in.

I don't mind the idea, but we (FreeBSD) would have to rework some of our 
tooling.  I suspect other non-Linux distributions are similarly 
affected.

Thinking out loud: would it make sense to rename the files in the Git 
repository, but keep the tarballs flat?  I suspect most downstreams 
consume the tarballs rather than the Git repository.

Philip