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

[Otto Kekäläinen]

On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 at 20:58, Santiago Vila <sanvila at debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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 Santiago for pulling up the changelog from tzdata. However,
this still does not make sense as the time zones CET, MET (and EET for
example) are still widely used and there are no replacements
advertised on Wikipedia on IANA or other sites I checked.