Bug#1030742: tzdata: Can’t configure the package

[Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2023-02-07 at 11:13 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Control: tags -1 
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 10:11:48AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 06:28:32AM +0100, Nicolas Patrois wrote:
> > > tzdata can’t be configured:
> > >  installed tzdata package post-installation script subprocess returned error
> > > exit status 10
> > > Thus, ntpsec can’t be upgraded (it depends on tzdata’s installation).
> > 
> > This also breaks setup of build chroots, test environments etc. I am not
> > sure whether severity important is high enough for this.
> 
> On my systems where things fail, /etc/localtime is a relative symlink
> pointing to ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin. Manually replacing this
> with an absolute link allows the tzdata update to proceed. Sadly, this
> is not an option in a debspawn container (because that tool doesnt allow
> manual tinkering with the container).

Thanks. I can reproduce it now and added this test case to
debian/tests/debconf. Expect a fix soon.

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer