** Description changed: [ Impact ] The 2024b release contains the following changes: * Improve historical data for Mexico, Mongolia, and Portugal. * System V names are now obsolescent. * The main data form now uses %z. [ Test Plan ] Test cases were added to the autopkgtest to cover the testing: * python: test_2024b * python-icu: test_2024b (only for focal and newer) So the test plan is to check that the autopkgtest succeeds. [ Other Info ] The autopkgtest for chrony is flaky on jammy and newer (see bug #2002910). There are backward-incompatible changes included: - Names present only for compatibility with UNIX System V - (last released in the 1990s) have been moved to 'backward'. - These names, which for post-1970 timestamps mostly just duplicate - data of geographical names, were confusing downstream uses. - Names moved to 'backward' are now Links to geographical names if - there is an exact match since 1970, and remain Zones otherwise. - Those needing the previous TZDB behavior, which does not match any - real-world clocks, can find the old entries in 'backzone'. - (Problem reported by Justin Grant.) + Names present only for compatibility with UNIX System V + (last released in the 1990s) have been moved to 'backward'. + These names, which for post-1970 timestamps mostly just duplicate + data of geographical names, were confusing downstream uses. + Names moved to 'backward' are now Links to geographical names if + there is an exact match since 1970, and remain Zones otherwise. + Those needing the previous TZDB behavior, which does not match any + real-world clocks, can find the old entries in 'backzone'. + (Problem reported by Justin Grant.) + + We need to exclude this change for the SRU since it can/will break user + setup (e. g. the user from bug #2055718) and it will break a handful of + tests (including dateparser, pandas, posrtesql-16). See + https://bugs.debian.org/1084190
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