Stephen Colebourne wrote:
I can see an attic file working if there is an additional loader rule. The loader rule would have to say that a zone in the attic file takes precedence over a link with the same ID.
That's pretty much what I implemented, with the loader rule being the BACKWARD setting in the Makefile, but you and others then objected. Oh well. Marc Lehmann wrote:
Never before has the tzdb seen so many changes that are not actually corrections
Not true; it had far more changes the last time we reorganized it, and another set of comparable changes after the Balkan wars upset clocks in the region. What's different now, is that there are more people involved, and a lot more bureaucracy, and considerably more resistance to change. It's understandable. Every long-running project has this sort of problem eventually. Given the reviews, it appears that we should undo the addition of the attic file, and revert the recent changes that lost pre-1970 data, so I'll do that shortly. Perhaps we can think of a better way to address the underlying problems.