Bug#466027: tzdata: does not update from etch to sid

[Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>]

Package: tzdata
Version: 2007k-3
Severity: important

Hi,

# debootstrap --resolve-deps etch foo http://your.mirror.example/debian/
# chroot foo apt-get update
# chroot foo apt-get install debfoster
# chroot foo debfoster -o MaxPriority=required -o UseRecommends=no -f -n apt debfoster
# chroot foo dpkg --purge debfoster
# chroot foo apt-get update
# chroot foo mount -t proc proc /proc
# edit foo/etc/apt/sources.list from etch to sid
# chroot foo apt-get update
# chroot foo apt-get install tzdata
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  debconf debconf-i18n libc6 liblocale-gettext-perl libtext-charwidth-perl
  libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl perl-base
Suggested packages:
  debconf-doc debconf-utils libgnome2-perl libnet-ldap-perl libqt-perl
  libterm-readline-gnu-perl whiptail dialog gnome-utils locales glibc-doc
  libc6-i686
Recommended packages:
  apt-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  debconf debconf-i18n liblocale-gettext-perl libtext-charwidth-perl
  libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libc6 perl-base tzdata
3 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6269kB of archives.
After unpacking 2691kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  liblocale-gettext-perl libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl
  libtext-wrapi18n-perl debconf-i18n debconf tzdata libc6 perl-base
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration (2) on tzdata


This is incidentally the procedure piuparts uses for upgrading, so
this issue seems to hinder piuparts tests. I do not have enough clue
about tzdata to find out whether this is really a tzdata bug. The
error message is not very conclusive.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-zgsrv (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.19     Debian configuration management sy

tzdata recommends no packages.

-- debconf information excluded