Bug#438191: tzdata: /etc/timezone changed from "Europe/Paris" to "User defined"

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>]

Package: tzdata
Version: 2007f-10
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 10.7.3

I've upgraded tzdata from 2007f-9 to 2007f-10, and the contents of
/etc/timezone changed from "Europe/Paris" to "User defined".

This change is incorrect and can affect some software. For instance,
/etc/init.d/cupsys does:

if [ -z "$TZ" -a -e /etc/timezone ]; then
    TZ=`cat /etc/timezone`
    export TZ
fi

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.14     Debian configuration management sy

tzdata recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  tzdata/Zones/Asia:
  tzdata/Zones/SystemV:
  tzdata/Zones/Pacific:
  tzdata/Zones/Atlantic:
  tzdata/Zones/US:
  tzdata/Zones/Etc:
  tzdata/Zones/Arctic:
  tzdata/Zones/Antarctica:
  tzdata/Zones/America:
* tzdata/Areas: Europe
  tzdata/Zones/Australia:
  tzdata/Zones/Canada:
* tzdata/Zones/Europe: Paris
  tzdata/Zones/Africa:
  tzdata/Zones/Indian: