On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
Hmmm, strange. In D-I the only strings we have that do not come from
tzdata are those for countries with more than one timezone....which is
not the case for Germany.
One shouldn't be prompted for a timezone if one chooses Germany
Well, maybe you're right. Büsingen is a tiny German exclave (1500
inhabitants) which seems to follows Zurich time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCsingen
At the moment (and for the forseeable future) Zurich time is the same
as Berlin time, so it seems questionable whether it is worthwhile to
bother German users with that corner case.
So, yes, as far as I know, these things probably belong to tzdata, but
it's surprising as this is the first time a german user reports being
prompted for a timezone during a D-I install (and we probably have
more than one german user...or Debian is really sicker than what I was
thinking...).
Büsingen seems to have been added recently. It only shows up in
jessie. (I've just tested that the 7.2 installer doesn't prompt German
users.)
Cheers,
Thiemo