Bug#1056908: tzdata: Support IANA time zones

2023-12-04 Thread John Clark

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?




Bug#1056908: tzdata: Support IANA time zones

2023-11-26 Thread John Clark

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.




Bug#760408: tcl8.6 backported from stretch - resolves this bug for me

2015-12-03 Thread John Clark
I can confirm Jerome Heyar's fix works for me.

Hopefully the fixed version of tcl in stretch will be adopted in jessie's
official repos at some point.


Bug#604058: Problem with Expert Install

2010-11-19 Thread John Clark
Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_beta1/amd64/iso-cd/debian-squeeze-di-beta1-amd64-netinst.iso
Date: 2010 Nov 19, 1200

Machine: Compaq AMD based laptop
Processor: AMD
Memory:
Partitions: N/A

Output of lspci -knn (or lspci -nn): N/A

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network:  [O]
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [E]
Install base system:[ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:[ ]
Install tasks:  [ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Overall install:[ ]

Comments/Problems:

The problem apparently has been long standing. The 'installer' requires that 
disks be partitioned no matter what. In expert mode there is no way
to 'skip' partioning the disk. This is unacceptable. Even in an 'automatic' 
mode, asking if the disk partition 'as is' should be 'asked'.
It is unacceptable to assume that someone installing always and every time 
wants to blow away their disk partitions and file systems.
Furthermore, getting to the 'shell' does no go, as there is not even the 
ability to do nfs mounts of remote file systems so as to be
able to 'save' the contents of a disk. 
This also holds true for the 'recover' mode, where it is a complete mystery as 
to what this non feature may be to actually be useful.
As I don't expect to hear from anyone on this, especially with a 'work around', 
I'll spend my time finding a way to 'break' this requirement
and see if I can get Debian installed 'how I want to install it', rather than 
be dependent on a bunch of mavins who 'know' how it must be
installed, and make sure it is painful, as painful say as anything Microsoft 
has to offer, when one wants to diverge from the beaten path.





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