Apparently Debian has deprecated /etc/timezone, as timedatectl isn't updating it: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata/-/commit/c071fbc167ad306394b576879d515e6ecbe5a734 I suppose we should also look into removing the file, as random tools want to wrongly depend on it being correct. In fact, libcxx is considering starting to rely on that file right now [1], so better get rid of it before more people make the mistake. [1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/105634#issuecomment-2660976683
The ebuild already removes /etc/timezone when creating /etc/localtime as a symlink. We don't remove it if /etc/localtime exists as a regular file. I think the next logical step would be to forcibly convert /etc/localtime from a regular file to a symlink when timezone-data is upgraded.
Perhaps it should also remove it (or at least verbosely warn about it) when /etc/localtime is a symlink already.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=311832fc268b9b62bd996fafdcbde0eafd3ab817 commit 311832fc268b9b62bd996fafdcbde0eafd3ab817 Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2025-02-17 02:02:24 +0000 Commit: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2025-02-17 21:24:07 +0000 sys-libs/timezone-data: remove /etc/timezone if localtime is a symlink Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/949812 Signed-off-by: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> sys-libs/timezone-data/timezone-data-2025a.ebuild | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
