Bug#905939: tzdata files can get corrupted via write to /etc/localtime
On 2018-08-12 22:05:00 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> The switch to a symlink has been done so that systemd (#803144), and
> recent desktop environments can work on Debian. On other distributions
> /etc/timezone does not exist and the timezone configuration can be
> checked by looking where the symlink points to.
OK, I've checked FHS 3.0, and it explicitly allows symbolic links
in /etc.
> In summary I don't believe there is a bug in tzdata. The bug should be
> reassigned to the package wrongly changing /etc/localtime.
I'll try to get information from the administrator of the machine
about this.
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