On 10/30/2016 10:20 AM, Ole Streicher wrote: > IETF is responsible for internet standards, not for leap seconds. They > will take the leap seconds from IERS. I would assume that this > connection is well-established to rely on it. I was not so much > questioning upstream here, but I worry a bit about the Debian package > for tzdata: how sure can I be that the tzdata is actual (wrt upstream)?
Regular stable updates (via stable/updates, not only point releases) happen for that package, in addition to regular uploads to unstable. See the timeline in: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tzdata >From what I can tell, this is probably the package that's updated in stable most consistently in the entirety of Debian. I would really recommend that you rely on tzdata directly, this will also save the release team a lot of work. (It's much easier for them to approve just a single package than 100 packages that need the time zone and/or leap second information.) Regards, Christian