On 2023-12-22 11:11 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 09:30:23AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
>> https://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges
>>
>> still says:
>>
>> "In Debian releases Etch and later, /etc/localtime is a copy of the
>> original data file. Check the contents of /etc/timezone to see the
>> name of the timezone. If the system is configured normally, you
>> should find that the zoneinfo file referenced by this name is
>> identical to /etc/localtime."
>
> I'd change it immediately, but I don't want to make a change that isn't
> correct.
>
> Was this paragraph actually correct for Etch? Was /etc/localtime a
> literal *copy* of a file instead of symlink?
Yes.
> If so, when did it change?
In tzdata 2016a-1[1].
> Or, was this wrong for Etch, and /etc/localtime was always a symlink?
Initially /etc/localtime was a symlink, but in Etch it had been
converted to a file[2].
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://bugs.debian.org/803144
2. https://bugs.debian.org/346342
