Am 29.01.2023 um 15:38 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, 13:15 Michael Biebl, <biebl@debian.org <mailto:biebl@debian.org>> wrote: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.
I would prefer, if all this is handled within tzdata. - It should stop creating /etc/timezone - It should delete /etc/timezone on upgrades as a one-time action- If users manually create the file afterwards (say touch /etc/timezone) a dpkg-reconfigure tzdata would update the file.
This should all be under tzdata's control. Michael
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