Bug#451892: updating libc6 destroys timezone setting
tag 451892 + unreproducible
thanks
Norbert Preining a écrit :
> Hi Aurelien,
>
> On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> Huh, are you sure it is due to the upgrade of libc6? This package
>> doesn't handle the timezone settings anymore.
>
> Hmm otherwise nothing of the core was updated: the only things I found
> was libc and locales, and I didn't see anything else which could have
> caused the sudden switch.
>
> Now I reconfigured tzdata and I am back in CET, but tzdata was updated
> last time on Nov 13 2007 (according to my aptitude log file).
>
Are you sure the timezone was correct before the upgrade? I have grepped
all the maintainer scripts of the glibc, and none of them modifies
/etc/timezone nor /etc/localtime.
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