[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#1038849: snowflake: transition from /etc/timezone to /etc/localtime

[Andreas Henriksson]

Control: severity -1 minor
Control: tags -1 + upstream

Hello,

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 11:17:07PM +0100, bluca at debian.org wrote:
> Source: snowflake
> Severity: normal
>
> snowflake is currently referencing /etc/timezone without support for
> /etc/localtime. /etc/timezone is a legacy interface that is Debian
> specific. The cross-distro standard /etc/localtime (as a symlink to
> the appropriate timezone file), so please switch your package to
> /etc/localtime. tzsetup will stop creating /etc/timezone soon. Note
> that the list of affected source packages was compiled with
> codesearch, so false positives are possible. Thank you.

As far as I can tell, the only place /etc/timezone is referenced is in
the upstream CI (.gitlab-ci.yml) which is *NOT* used in the debian
packaging and doesn't affect debian in any way.

One could argue that this bug should simply be closed, but I'm
downgrading it to minor for now since someone with an account on the
upstream bug tracker might want to notify upstream about changing
their CI to use localtime.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson

PS. I'm not the maintainer or know anything about this package, just
doing drive-by RC bug squashing.