Re: [tz] [PATCH 2/3] Replace some zones with links when that doesn't lose non-LMT info.

Stephen Colebourne wrote:

Shanks information has at least some degree of thought behind it,

As a longtime reader of the Shanks data, I have a good feeling for when it's reliable and when it isn't. This is definitely a place where isn't.

the consumers of the tzdb see the data as fact

That's a problem, since much of the data are wrong. And it's all the more reason to omit dubious data when we can, which is the case here.