Bug#1038845: reprotest: transition from /etc/timezone to /etc/localtime

[Vagrant Cascadian]

Control: severity 1038845 important

On 2023-06-21, bluca at debian.org wrote:
> reprotest 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. 

The code in question only does anything if /etc/timezone exists, so
downgrading the severity to important.

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