Bug#1057567: libconfig-model-lcdproc-perl: FTBFS: Cannot determine local time zone

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:52:15 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:

> On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 23:06:12 CET you wrote:
> > Wrote documentation in lib/Config/Model/models/LCDd/yard2LCD.pod Cannot
> > determine local time zone
> > [DZ] beginning to build Config-Model-LcdProc
> I've seen this error from time to time. I don't know the exact algorithm used 
> to determine the time zone, but usually, setting TZ to an appropriate value 
> fixed this issue.

I had a brief look on some of the bugs yesterday; I could reproduce
them once I (re)moved /etc/timezone in my chroot (tzdata is not
installed but the old /etc/timezone is apparently left around). Fixes
included either setting TZ for the tests or installing tzdata which
recreated /etc/timezone.

My suspicion/idea was that it might be useful to have
libdatetime-timezone-perl depend on tzdata (now that tzdata is not
essential (or whatever it was) any more), as
libdatetime-timezone-perl seems to be involved in alle of the bug
reports …


Thoughts?


Cheers,
gregor

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