This is effectively identical to 2023a, because of the chaos around
Lebanon's short notice DST c...

Bump version to 2022g

Fix broken test configuration

Mypy has gotten more strict about implicit optional, and there were a
few other typing issues th...

These are no longer supported on ubuntu-latest, but they work on 20.04.

Upgrade versions in github actions

I no longer really believe GPG signatures are a very useful signal here,
and they are a bit of a...

See commit 5053a73a88a497e305ae8f8f9f058ceedf13edd (2021.2) for more
details — this is the secon...

This is really 2021a+ — there is a great deal of controversy upstream
about the inclusion of a n...

This is useful for the case we find ourselves in now — where we want to
build from a local copy ...

`pep517.build` is deprecated and has various bugs related to isolation,
and `pypa/build` has mat...

Starting in version 0.5.0, the default behavior of `pypa/build` is to
first build the sdist, the...

Include NEWS.md in source dists

Should say "released" before the date rather than "release".

Add news parsing

This automatically parses news entries as part of the update process, to
make changelogs easier ...

I prefer pytype's approach, but pytype doesn't support Python 3.8 or 3.9
yet, which is unnecessa...

When this was in my personal namespace and I was the only one
contributing `push` was effectivel...

Run pre-commit autoupdate

Required changes to the configuration to stop using deprecated modules,
and to avoid isort think...

These do not have any material effect on the repo.

Remove posixrules

posixrules is a deprecated link used to indicate local time in some
situations (e.g. when TZ is ...

Override -r from TWINE_REPOSITORY

Apparently the precedence for twine goes like this:

1. --repository-url
2. TWINE_REPOSITORY_URL...

Further housekeeping

This will only check the latest commit, not all the commits in the PR,
but that's better than no...

The commit that every setuptools project has. 😅

Without doing this, there was some conflict between the `tox -e format`
job and the pre-commit h...

Because we hard-code the version twice, we want to make sure that the
VERSION file and the tzdat...

Change version bumping scheme

This changes the release workflow for the moment. Now, new updates come
in as rc0, and to make a...

Flesh out readme / documentation

Add GH Action to publish to PyPI

This publishes to Test PyPI on tag and published to public PyPI when a
github release is made.

This also changes the build job to clear out existing entries before a
new build is invoked.

Metadata cleanup and minor housekeeping

The type of translation to do here is explicitly mentioned in PEP 440,
and this will help preven...

Fix windows build and add tests

The package should work with Python 2.7 or any version of Python, since
it's a data-only package...

Since apparently this was silently failing, it's probably best to
actually add some tests here.
...

Apparently this will silently fail with a trailing / on Windows, making
it so this package is co...