On Mon, 2023-12-04 at 10:31 -0500, John Clark wrote: > On 12/4/23 10:13 AM, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 2023-11-26 at 09:23 -0500, John Clark wrote: > > > Package: tzdata > > > Version: 2023c-8 > > > > > > The 12 well-known US time zones have been dropped from Debian tzdata as > > > of 2023c-8: > > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1451157/accepted-tzdata-2023c-8-source-into-unstable > > > > > > These time zones are still officially recognized and fully supported by > > > IANA. > > > > > > IANA Timezone Database: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones > > > > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Alaska > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Aleutian > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Arizona > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/East-Indiana > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Hawaii > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Indiana-Starke > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Michigan > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific > > > /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Samoa > > > > > > > > > Their removal appears to be related to this request: > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1040997 > > > > > > This request does not provide any support as to why Debian should > > > deviate from IANA standards. > > > > > > Requesting that Debian again adopt international time zone standards and > > > support these well known IANA time zones as it does in Bookworm. > > These timezones are considered legacy by the upstream tz project. These > > timezones were not removed but moved to tzdata-legacy. So please install > > tzdata-legacy if you want to use them: > > > > sudo apt install tzdata-legacy > > > I looked for deprecations in the upstream project but did not find any. > Can you cite any IANA deprecation references?
All legacy names are mentioned in the backward file [1]. The backward file has an explanation at the beginning of the file. It is also mentioned on theory.html[2]. [1] https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/backward [2] https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer