Bug#61163: libc6: /etc/localtime missing after upgrade

[<nijhojhb@aston.ac.uk>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.1.3-7
Severity: normal

This morning I noticed that /etc/localtime had gone -- so the clock did
not show summertime. Instead, date showed
"Mon Mar 27 10:37:48 /etc/localtime 2000".

I am pretty sure I did have a /etc/localtime, and I did not remove it
myself -- so my guess is that it disappeared on one of the latest upgrades
(potato -> potato).

Unfortunately, this is not something very repeatable:
at least running /var/lib/dpkg/info/libc6.postinst configure 
did not remove /etc/localtime .

Jeroen Nijhof


-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux tux 2.2.13 #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 13:02:34 GMT 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages libc6 depends on:
ii  ldso           1.9.11-5       The Linux dynamic linker, library and utilit