On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Stefan Krah <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> Stefan Krah added the comment:
>
> For libmpdec (and thus _decimal) I've always used the latest version
> of dectest.zip. Upgrading decimaltestdata/* will not make any difference.
>

Not sure Stefan what you are saying.
Under the assumption that you are addressing the apprehension of eric.smith
in the earlier bug-report http://bugs.python.org/issue24507, Eric's comment
is here reproduced:

> At least for the files in decimaltestdata, I'd be wary about changing
> them. My understanding is that these files are from the IBM decimal
> test library. I don't think we should stray from upstream here, even
> for something as simple as line endings.

> Unfortunately, the link http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal from the
> file headers is no longer valid.