Bug#466027: tzdata: does not update from etch to sid
I got the same problem.
I downloaded initrd.gz and vmlinuz from
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/
to boot the installer from hard disk as described here:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-initrd
The installer works fine, and I chose "Standard System" with tasksel.
After booting the newly installed etch system, I
edited /etc/apt/sources.list to replace "etch" by "testing". Then doing
"apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" led to the same error message
"could not perform immediate configuration (2) on tzdata":
A workaround seems to be:
apt-get install libstdc++6
apt-get dist-upgrade
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