On Sun, 29 Jan 2023, 13:15 Michael Biebl, <bi...@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. >
