Hello, Before uploading I did purge tzdata from my sbuild chroot and the build succeeded. This makes me think that maybe there is something else involved, but since I did not see the failure log, that is a wild uneducated guess. Please provide some log showing the error.
I am silently following the discussion on debian-devel, silently because my feeling is as a DM I do not have a voice in this. What I see are formally valid arguments on one end and practically valid ones on the other. The main problem is that for parties not involved in the decision both sides are somewhat right and as a worst case example, someone else may start filing bugs to remove the tzdata deps. That would be perfectly valid, because packages will build on buildds without the tzdata dep and removing it would minimize the dep list. As a result the whole thing will lead to pointless work and only contribute to global warming. My unimportant opinion is that while minimizing the build chroots and using finer grained deps is a very good thing, the change should be agreed upon, formalized in policy, and made clear to everyone involved. Then announced when it will be implemented on buildds, then implemented. There are already way too many suboptimal and fuzzy things in Debian's processes, adding more is not good for the project and respectively its users. While I am always willing to fix low priority stuff, I'd prefer to wait and see some final resolution before proceeding. With best regards, b.
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