> Locations in countries like Norway and Sweden got special treatment by 

To which Robert Elz asked, why not instead resolve that discrepancy by restoring full data definitions, in the `africa` file, for Africa/Luanda and Africa/Addis_Ababa? That seems like a better resolution. After all, those two IDs had distinct definitions in the past, and then Paul converted them to Links back in 2014 (see commits [1] and [2], respectively).

But really my question is whether Stephen C. et al would accept such a change. If Europe/Stockholm *becoming a Link and losing pre-1970 history* is an unacceptable change to data stability, what about Africa/Luanda *ceasing to be a Link and gaining pre-1970 history*?

[1] https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/94f941ebd1a02356253290333da2977c3ae28aaf

[2] https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/6f6f20f0bc739ce3dfd503700b793c5e459e309d