Am 28.01.2023 um 02:12 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
> I'm looking at this again, because handling /etc/timezone is one of the
> last large technical debt patches that we carry in Debian for
> src:systemd, and we want to drop it for Trixie.
> The idea is to add a tmpfiles.d entry in the systemd package that
> unconditionally deletes /etc/timezone if present. If someone wants to
> keep using it, they can simply override the tmpfiles.d entry with the
> usual mechanisms.
>
> So, could you please reconsider the proposal to stop creating it if it
> doesn't exist (but keep updating if it does) in the tzdata postinst as
> above for Trixie?
I'm a bit confused: If you forcefully want to delete /etc/timezone via a
tmpfiles snippet, why let tzdata update an existing /etc/timezone?
Because it can be overridden as mentioned, so in case there are unknown corner cases where it's still needed, a drop-in can be added to avoid deleting the file and it will still get updated. In the future we can then consider removing this as well.