Bug#1117626: reprotest: Use the Continent/City (zoneinfo) syntax for time zone variation

[Holger Levsen]

control: severity -1 wishlist
control: tags -1 wontfix
thanks

On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 10:41:17PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> As was mentioned on the list thread, this change would require for tzdata
> to be installed everywhere, otherwise the results are bogus (AFAIUI). On
> a system with tzdata installed:

eeks. also its not acceptable to install tzdata everywhere because one package
has problems...

> As such, I don't think this should be changed, and if the referenced
> package has a problem with this, its test suite should massage its
> environment so that it can test what it is supposed to be testing.

agreed, thanks.


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	Holger

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