On Mon, 2023-08-07 at 23:20 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Package: tzdata > Version: 2023c-8 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de > > Please bring back at the *very* least the top-level UTC symlink, > as TZ=UTC is used in *so* many places to get UTC it’s not funny.
Can you point to examples for it? Most of these cases should probably use TZ=UTC0 which work without having any timezone data files. Moving it back will be fine to unbreak those cases. I searched for TZ=UTC on codesearch.debian.net and all hits that I looked at were false positives for Python code that uses tz=utc (where utc = datetime.UTC). > A second candidate, although less used recently, is the top-level > GMT symlink. I haven't used GMT myself and I am not aware of any users. Do you know packages that use/hardcode GMT? I haven't found TZ=GMT on codesearch.debian.net. > These are bound to be hardcoded in so many places, and Etc/UTC is > *not* a substitute, nor is running that without the files (in some > corner cases). Why isn't Etc/UTC an alternative to UTC? -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
