Re: [tz] Recent conversions of zones to aliases

Thanks for the info, but I'm afraid there's not much new here. Stephen Colebourne wrote:

The recent change to map Harare to Maputo broke a test in Joda-Time

Did Joda-Time's regression tests also fail for 2014h's changes to Jamaica time in early 1974? Those changes are for more-recent time stamps, time stamps that are in scope for the tz database.

there should be at least one actual Zone entry for each ISO defined territory/country,

That has never been true of the tz database. Adding such a requirement now would result in more political churn and maintenance overhead, something we already have too much of. There is a real benefit to keeping our distance from politics, even if this means some regression tests need to be updated.