Bug#1055541: In Trixie, /etc/localtime incorrectly set to UTC in some cases due to the installer including mappings to removed legacy timezones
package: tzsetup
In bug #1040997 legacy symlinks were moved out of the tzdata package to tzdata-legacy. The "post-base-installer.d/05tzsetup" script does not set the /etc/localtime symlink because db_get is returning these legacy time zones that no longer exist in the tsdata package.
I think the fix is to modify the mappings in debian/common.templates.in to remove the legacy time zones and replace them with the versions shipped in the new version of tzdata.
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