Bug#1043250: tzdata: bring back top-level UTC

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Package: tzdata
Version: 2023c-8
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: tg@mirbsd.de

Please bring back at the *very* least the top-level UTC symlink,
as TZ=UTC is used in *so* many places to get UTC it’s not funny.

A second candidate, although less used recently, is the top-level
GMT symlink.

These are bound to be hardcoded in so many places, and Etc/UTC is
*not* a substitute, nor is running that without the files (in some
corner cases).


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-23-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.82

tzdata recommends no packages.

tzdata suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC
* tzdata/Areas: Europe
  tzdata/Zones/Antarctica:
  tzdata/Zones/Arctic:
  tzdata/Zones/Australia:
  tzdata/Zones/US:
  tzdata/Zones/Pacific:
  tzdata/Zones/America:
  tzdata/Zones/Asia:
* tzdata/Zones/Europe: Berlin
  tzdata/Zones/SystemV:
  tzdata/Zones/Africa:
  tzdata/Zones/Atlantic:
  tzdata/Zones/Indian: