[debian-mysql] Bug#1084293: Bug#1084293: mariadb: FTBFS: Failing test(s): main.timezone

[Santiago Vila]

El 27/10/24 a las 21:09, Otto Kekäläinen escribió:
> Do you Faustin want to dive into why the timezone started to behave
> differently recently in Debian?
> 
> Sergei and Daniel already looked at
> https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-35088, but you could help find
> out what changed in Debian Sid recently.

Hi. The relevant changes are in the tzdata package.
This is from the changelog:

   * Upstream obsoleted the System V names CET, CST6CDT, EET, EST*, HST, MET,
     MST*, PST8PDT, and WET. They are symlinks now. Move those zones to
     tzdata-legacy and update /etc/localtime on package update to the new names.
     Please use Etc/GMT* in case you want to avoid DST changes.

If you are lucky, an additional build-depends on tzdata-legacy might fix
some tests which broke. However, if those zones are considered obsolete,
you might want to consider obsoleting the matching test as well.

Hope this helps.

[ Disclaimer: I'm just a casual observer of packages which FTBFS ]

Thanks.