[Python-modules-team] Bug#825727: python-babel: FTBFS: assert 'GMT+00:00' == 'GMT-01:59'

[Santiago Vila]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 06:42:19PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> > > I'm afaid I still cannot reproduce it. Downgrading until somebody else can.
> > 
> > Well, I can. Not exactly the same error, but for now I will assume
> > there is a common reason for them.
> 
> Looking at this again "my" error appears to be caused by the fact that my
> /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime are read-only at the filesystem level as
> I inherit them from outside my container:
> 
>     --volume=/etc/adjtime:/etc/adjtime:ro
>     --volume=/etc/timezone:/etc/timezone:ro
>     --volume=/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
> 
> When I turn that off, I can build fine. I find this strange, as I don't
> actually build as root within this container so it couldn't write to it
> even if it wanted.
> 
> Any ideas?

My files are not read-only, but the /etc/localtime in my chroots,
instead of being a copy of the binary file in /usr/share/zoneinfo, is
just a symlink:

/etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Madrid

I know this is not exactly what "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" does,
but I think it should be supported.

Thanks.