Bug#999465: tzdata: asks debconf question tzdata/Areas twice
Package: tzdata
Version: 2021e-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
when (manually) installing tzdata in my minimal pbuilder chroots, the
debconf question tzdata/Areas gets asked twice: once in the
pre-configuration step, once during package configuration:
# apt-get install tzdata
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
tzdata
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/291 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3431 kB of additional disk space will be used.
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78, <> line 1.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Preconfiguring packages ...
Configuring tzdata
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Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration questions will narrow this down by presenting a list of cities, representing the time zones in which they are located.
1. Africa 2. America 3. Antarctica 4. Australia 5. Arctic 6. Asia 7. Atlantic 8. Europe 9. Indian 10. Pacific 11. US 12. Etc
Geographic area: 8
Please select the city or region corresponding to your time zone.
1. Amsterdam 5. Belfast 9. Brussels 13. Chisinau 17. Guernsey 21. Jersey 25. Lisbon 29. Madrid 33. Monaco 37. Paris 41. Rome 45. Saratov 49. Stockholm 53. Ulyanovsk 57. Vienna 61. Zagreb
2. Andorra 6. Belgrade 10. Bucharest 14. Copenhagen 18. Helsinki 22. Kaliningrad 26. Ljubljana 30. Malta 34. Moscow 38. Podgorica 42. Samara 46. Simferopol 50. Tallinn 54. Uzhgorod 58. Vilnius 62. Zaporozhye
3. Astrakhan 7. Berlin 11. Budapest 15. Dublin 19. Isle_of_Man 23. Kiev 27. London 31. Mariehamn 35. Nicosia 39. Prague 43. San_Marino 47. Skopje 51. Tirane 55. Vaduz 59. Volgograd 63. Zurich
4. Athens 8. Bratislava 12. Busingen 16. Gibraltar 20. Istanbul 24. Kirov 28. Luxembourg 32. Minsk 36. Oslo 40. Riga 44. Sarajevo 48. Sofia 52. Tiraspol 56. Vatican 60. Warsaw
Time zone: 7
Selecting previously unselected package tzdata.
(Reading database ... 14597 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../tzdata_2021e-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking tzdata (2021e-1) ...
Setting up tzdata (2021e-1) ...
debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 78.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Configuring tzdata
------------------
Please select the geographic area in which you live. Subsequent configuration questions will narrow this down by presenting a list of cities, representing the time zones in which they are located.
1. Africa 2. America 3. Antarctica 4. Australia 5. Arctic 6. Asia 7. Atlantic 8. Europe 9. Indian 10. Pacific 11. US 12. Etc
Geographic area: 8
Current default time zone: 'Europe/Berlin'
Local time is now: Thu Nov 11 13:40:48 CET 2021.
Universal Time is now: Thu Nov 11 12:40:48 UTC 2021.
Run 'dpkg-reconfigure tzdata' if you wish to change it.
The minimal chroot has a pre-existing /etc/timezone containing Etc/UTC,
but even if I delete that before installing tzdata that question is
repeated. There are no pre-existing "*tzdata*" entries in the debconf
database.
Andreas
PS: tzdata gets usually installed as a dependency when manually
entering the pbuilder environment and doing apt-get build-dep $pkg
to do some interactive build testing ...
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