Bug#822733: Processed: found 822733 in 2022g-6

[Michael Biebl]

Hi

Am 09.01.25 um 18:56 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:

On 2025-01-09 17:36, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:

found 822733 2022g-6

Bug #822733 {Done: Benjamin Drung <bdr...@debian.org>} [tzdata] tzdata: Drop 
/etc/timezone
Marked as found in versions tzdata/2022g-6 and reopened.

thanks

Stopping processing here.

Just to clarify the situation, starting with tzdata 2024b-5,
/etc/timezone is not created anymore by tzdata, only updated if it
exists. debian-installer does not create this file anymore, so newly
installed Trixie systems won't have that file unless created manually.

I've re-opened the bug report as changes were reverted in

 tzdata (2022g-6) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Restore generating /etc/timezone again. The removal of /etc/timezone
     will be done in Debian 13 "Trixie". (Closes: #1031376, #1031395)

So, newly installed systems will be different from upgraded systems.
Ultimately, I think we should remove /etc/timezone on upgrades as well,
to ensure there is no schism between upgraded any newly installed systems.
I thus think it makes sense to keep this issue open for tracking purposes.
Regarding tracking, I usertagged the open issues [1] that I could find.



So the upgrade check would have to be:
a/ If upgrading from stable → run the code
b/ If upgrading from a previous version < 123 → run the code





Michael

Aurelien added parts of the changes back in 2024b-5, excluding the changes which remove /etc/timezone on upgrades. As for the "remove /etc/timezone on upgrades" as in [2], Aurelien mentioned on IRC that a simple version check like this is maybe to simplistic. tzdata regularly gets stable updates and I assume a stable update would not include this upgrade code. As for a/, maybe checking if the version contains "deb" would be a reliable indicator. Another approach to implement the one-time-removal-on-upgrades would be to use a flag file. [1] https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?user=pkg-systemd-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org&tag=etc-timezone-removal [2] https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata/-/commit/3edcce5955de5ed7b7072402e7565945bc84aea8

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