On 2018-08-12 22:05:00 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > The switch to a symlink has been done so that systemd (#803144), and > recent desktop environments can work on Debian. On other distributions > /etc/timezone does not exist and the timezone configuration can be > checked by looking where the symlink points to.
OK, I've checked FHS 3.0, and it explicitly allows symbolic links in /etc. > In summary I don't believe there is a bug in tzdata. The bug should be > reassigned to the package wrongly changing /etc/localtime. I'll try to get information from the administrator of the machine about this. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)