update

git-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R-dev-web/trunk@2533 c52295ea-58df-0310-926a-d16021944841

Author: ripley

214update.txt

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ All packages will be lazy-loaded.  Please remove any LazyLoad field
 from the DESCRIPTION file: false values will give a warning on
 installation.
 
-Very few packages are affected by this: in most cases they had
+Very few packages were affected by this: in most cases they had
 top-level code with side-effects, something 'Writing R Extensions' has
 warned about for many years.
 
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ include:
   the .First.lib() function should be renamed as .onAssign() or
   .onLoad(): in a few cases it needs to split into two functions.
 
-  There are exceptions where in has been found that .First.lib should
+  There are exceptions where it has been found that .First.lib should
   be run as .onLoad: these are listed in object
   base::.Firstlib_as_onLoad.
 

release-checklist.html

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ <h2 align=left>
     <li> <a href="http://laurikari.net/tre/download/">tre</a>
     <li> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctrio/files/">trio</a>:
     only used on Windows.
-    <li> <a href="ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/">tzone</a>: this
+    <li> <a href="http://www.iana.org/time-zones">tzone</a>: this
     amounts to picking up the latest <tt>tzdata</tt> file, and on a
     machine with <tt>zic</tt> (usually Linux) following the procedure
     in <tt>src/extra/tzone/Notes</tt>.
@@ -166,7 +166,8 @@ <h2 align=left>
     <li> <a href="http://www.zlib.org">zlib</a>. We now only use the
     basic interface, not the buggy gzio one.
   </ul>
-  We don't update <tt>intl</tt> (for license reasons).
+  We don't update <tt>intl</tt> (originally for licence reasons, but
+  it reverted to LGPL 2.1).
 </ul>
 
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