Bug#822733: tzdata: Drop /etc/timezone

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, 13:15 Michael Biebl, <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Am 28.01.2023 um 02:12 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
> > I'm looking at this again, because handling /etc/timezone is one of the
> > last large technical debt patches that we carry in Debian for
> > src:systemd, and we want to drop it for Trixie.
> > The idea is to add a tmpfiles.d entry in the systemd package that
> > unconditionally deletes /etc/timezone if present. If someone wants to
> > keep using it, they can simply override the tmpfiles.d entry with the
> > usual mechanisms.
> >
> > So, could you please reconsider the proposal to stop creating it if it
> > doesn't exist (but keep updating if it does) in the tzdata postinst as
> > above for Trixie?
>
> I'm a bit confused: If you forcefully want to delete /etc/timezone via a
> tmpfiles snippet, why let tzdata update an existing /etc/timezone?
>

Because it can be overridden as mentioned, so in case there are unknown
corner cases where it's still needed, a drop-in can be added to avoid
deleting the file and it will still get updated. In the future we can then
consider removing this as well.

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