Your message dated Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:50:30 +0000 with message-id <e1apcfi-0005hr...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#803144: fixed in tzdata 2016a-1 has caused the Debian Bug report #803144, regarding tzdata: turn /etc/timezone into a symlink to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: tzdata Version: 2015g-1 Severity: wishlist Hello, Michael Biebl and I just discussed about /etc/timezone, as we carry a patch for that in systemd [1]. For a long time, tzdata (and systemd-timedated) copied /usr/share/zoneinfo/... to /etc/timezone because we needed to account for having a separate /usr. However, since initramfs-tools 0.117 (in Jessie) /usr always gets mounted in the initramfs, so during system boot we can rely on it. Hence the original reason for not using a symlink is moot now. Would you consider turning it into a symlink now? We'd gladly follow along in systemd and drop that patch. With a symlink there's less conffile jitter on timezone updates, less chance of it becoming inconsistent with newer tzdata updates, fewer things to be put into your /etc/ git backup; and I don't believe that /etc/timezone is really meant to be changed by admins -- i. e. it's not meant to be a conffile, it just was there because in earlier Debian releases a symlink was unreliable during early boot. Thanks for considering! Martin [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/patches/timedated-don-t-rely-on-usr-being-mounted-in-the-ini.patch -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)signature.asc
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--- Begin Message ---Source: tzdata Source-Version: 2016a-1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of tzdata, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 803...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> (supplier of updated tzdata package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 17:26:32 +0100 Source: tzdata Binary: tzdata tzdata-java Architecture: source Version: 2016a-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org> Changed-By: Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> Description: tzdata - time zone and daylight-saving time data tzdata-java - time zone and daylight-saving time data for use by java runtimes Closes: 803144 Changes: tzdata (2016a-1) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Aurelien Jarno ] * Add Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser fields to debian/control. * New upstream version, affecting the following future time stamps: - America/Cayman - Asia/Chita - Asia Tehran * Change /etc/timezone into a symlink (closes: #803144) Checksums-Sha1: b9746be3f40a5df1b850b458d09cb1064da6e6df 2070 tzdata_2016a-1.dsc 9ba86f3bfc1c7c3470eeb6963dd6ac84c9195d69 302817 tzdata_2016a.orig.tar.gz dfed72b46ddaa87ff197bc1b26018730a5ed9df9 100964 tzdata_2016a-1.debian.tar.xz Checksums-Sha256: b40a208baf32288d1fe412eaf865fd8640d55d6f55246ef022104776c2f18ddd 2070 tzdata_2016a-1.dsc 5efa6b324e64ef921ef700ac3273a51895f672684a30e342f68e47871c6a8cd1 302817 tzdata_2016a.orig.tar.gz 00c59a2319742a3d9c8070c753d761990e6ce174e80042365f31f29f4c3aab21 100964 tzdata_2016a-1.debian.tar.xz Files: 2c3bc8eab8e4cb51d262ad5527a4a904 2070 localization required tzdata_2016a-1.dsc 0d3123eb1b453ec0620822bd65be4c42 302817 localization required tzdata_2016a.orig.tar.gz e1d21faa8248981af1e64b6aac573719 100964 localization required tzdata_2016a-1.debian.tar.xz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWq5WnAAoJELqceAYd3YybtqQQAKGWEdw5xvdyno+U54Yas1xU IXgYN2qWozuDrCEPpC38bVkrsF6Z0Kyi6cTvQtwd7ljVGB5N22Dlvuc4iS6IH9bD JfyXRZLdFZxw8P+EzjkZkRpCbtmQUHNVmvSdMeo4wKGlG2lnRRIgx4dF11AgH8hD s5mAILLiuQjmG1oZmmPezFG8YnLP/yKyfVEw8FZ5aN0kjWkHmUhdcn5wKg+7K4S8 XhRBmnr0l5ShtqyaPb4e7FmljE4SnAJ2W4gmRwMks/bnKgsKBYY0UDGbPZonkld1 xd7Ehh9qJqEjUFBVHcMxZtb5MsUxViGeDK5Wa8proIgQJPAOoxezLm9SarTZrxFA mg5igoCU12nvDiX/YO9fVhp/eoJYCw2KmT2E6k87e+OMhWCXEVgNcrqySWyCXOjU LOl+hz1QW8pHzNqgqn6V9hgQiAYasb/HtFI3Yz/pMhSYElLkM1zZp3xwKTo8x4ut P/Pof0DDaQUqsX0FghMflDzbrmqMmlEm8Y9CwpPtpkEBMvhXtWR84A5P7crdIPYt 4e/JhtUBzH9gFpXfxtOcBYghvPWafqwY6W8FXo8xRngciUIdoENBa6yDP36hQplL lPiTKLuGDpJwCoILkUunOiLmk9hBaWz7mfEeFuNen6XqW9EK310p/tdfxrOHCK89 si2e/BYSAxSaFoMnfbSS =AyJi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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