[tz] Re: [PROPOSED 0/3] zic options -D, -m, and -u from FreeBSD

[Paul Eggert via tz]

On 2025-10-24 12:28, Brian Inglis via tz wrote:

Please summarize the new options' functions where mentioned in NEWS

Thanks for the suggestion. I installed the attached.
From 3c32d8720107559242c450db52d456e93a46610d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:44:00 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED] Give more details about new zic options

* NEWS: Give more details about -D, -m, -u.
From a suggestion by Brian Inglis in:
https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/message/MFCVGYXGO5QS2TLE4OPM36S6SZ2DUW24/
---
 NEWS | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9764cf0c..37ac9fba 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -105,7 +105,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     exceedingly long TZ strings no longer fail merely because they
     exceed an arbitrary file name length limit imposed by tzcode.
 
-    zic has new options -D, -m, and -u, inspired by FreeBSD.
+    zic has new options inspired by FreeBSD.  '-D' skips creation of
+    output ancestor directories, '-m MODE' sets output files' mode,
+    and '-u OWNER[:GROUP]' sets output files' owner and group.
 
     zic now uses the fdopen function, which was standardized by
     POSIX.1-1988 and is now safe to use in portable code.
-- 
2.51.0