On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 11:11:18 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 09:30:23AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > https://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges > > > > still says: > > > > "In Debian releases Etch and later, /etc/localtime is a copy of the > > original data file. Check the contents of /etc/timezone to see the > > name of the timezone. If the system is configured normally, you > > should find that the zoneinfo file referenced by this name is > > identical to /etc/localtime." > > I'd change it immediately, but I don't want to make a change that isn't > correct. > > Was this paragraph actually correct for Etch? Was /etc/localtime a > literal *copy* of a file instead of symlink? If so, when did it change? > > Or, was this wrong for Etch, and /etc/localtime was always a symlink?
With the proviso that I don't know what "restorecon" does in postinst scripts, this list of .debs has been prefixed by c for copy and l for link: l-tzdata_2007b-1_all.deb l-tzdata_2008e-1etch3_all.deb c-tzdata_2011k-0lenny1_all.deb c-tzdata_2014e-0squeeze1_all.deb c-tzdata_2015c-1_all.deb c-tzdata_2015g-0+deb6u1_all.deb c-tzdata_2016d-0+deb7u1_all.deb c-tzdata_2018e-0+deb8u1_all.deb l-tzdata_2020a-0+deb9u1_all.deb l-tzdata_2021a-1+deb11u10_all.deb l-tzdata_2021a-1+deb11u11_all.deb Cheers, David.
