[Bug 1696298] Please test proposed package

[Adam Conrad]

Hello Ryan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into artful-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2017c-
0ubuntu0.17.10 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from
verification-needed-artful to verification-done-artful. If it does not
fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the
tag to verification-failed-artful. In either case, details of your
testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance!

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Title:
  leap-seconds.list file expires 28 June 2017

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in tzdata source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed
Status in tzdata source package in Xenial:
  Fix Committed
Status in tzdata source package in Zesty:
  Fix Committed
Status in tzdata source package in Artful:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  The currently published tzdata package for supported distributions
  contains a leap-seconds.list file that expires on 28 June 2017 and
  that was based on data available up through IERS Bulletin C52.

  IERS Bulletin C53 was published on Jan 9 2017 confirming that a June
  30 2017 would not be issued. I'm not sure what serves as the upstream
  data source for this package, but both IEFT and the eggertz tz repo
  have a leap-seconds.list file that incorporates Bulletin C53.

  https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/leap-seconds.list
  https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/leap-seconds.list

  Would it be possible to get the package updated to include these more
  recent files? Some applications make use of the expiration data in
  this file and will raise exceptions to the user if it has gone stale.

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