[jdk8u-ri] RFR: 8332085: Remove 10 year old transition check in GenerateCurrencyData tool

[Naoto Sato]

On Fri, 10 May 2024 19:22:20 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Assuming a currency is no longer trustworthy because (and only because) 10 years has passed is a heuristic I suppose, but a dubious one, and a refusal to build seems a questionable way to inform people.

It only affects the entry with transition date, such as currency code switching XXX to XXY on that date, and the transition date is stale in this case, so currency code itself is supposed to be correct. Yet there is no convincing reasoning for the 10 year boundary.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-ri/pull/17#issuecomment-2105203978