Re: weird tzdata version numbers

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Sun, Dec 08, 2024 at 19:44:49 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> version number for tzdata in bullseye is 2024b-0+deb11u1, but
> for bookworm it is still 2024a-0+deb12u1. This seems weird.
> Shouldn't the bookworm version number be "newer" than the bullseye
> version?

hobbit:~$ apt policy tzdata
tzdata:
  Installed: 2024b-0+deb12u1
  Candidate: 2024b-0+deb12u1
  Version table:
 *** 2024b-0+deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2024a-0+deb12u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main i386 Packages

Perhaps you're missing the bookworm-updates source?  It's optional,
but recommended.