Bug#473857: tzdata.postinst fails when TZ is not in the environment

To: Adam Heath <doogie@brainfood.com>, 473857@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#473857: tzdata.postinst fails when TZ is not in the environment
From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:20:29 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 47F34FDD.2070105@aurel32.net>
Reply-to: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>, 473857@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 47F2C571.5090109@brainfood.com>
References: <[🔎] 47F2C571.5090109@brainfood.com>

Adam Heath a écrit :
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2008b-1
> Severity: important
> 
> If I do not have TZ in my environment, then the postinst fails.  It has 
> an unprotected "unset TZ", which will fail the script if TZ is not 
> actually in the environment.

Huh?!? Which strange shell are you using?

> The simple fix is to use "|| true" in the 2 places where this occurs.

That's a wrong fix. The correct one is to fix your shell.

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