On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 05:21, Paul Eggert via tz <[email protected]> wrote: > in practice it has > turned into something different: it is now primarily a way of supporting > two versions of tzdb, the default one (which attempts to avoid politics > as much as possible) and the backzone one (which instead attempts to > avoid changes from older versions of the database).
As a reminder to everyone interested, it doesn't have to be this way. The "avoid politics" data is a subset of the "avoid changes" data. It would be a hell of a lot easier to model it that way (ie. with the source data being *all* the available data). Stephen
