Package: tzdata Version: 2023c-2 Severity: grave Tags: d-i upstream Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer, On 2024-04-17 several of my servers running Debian 10 received an update for the tzdata package via Debian unattended-upgrade. However, this update resulted in corruption of files within the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory. As a consequence, the OS was unable to read these files, causing other processes (such as PHP) to fail when attempting to access timezone information. I was using tzdata 2023c-2 package, and originally installed from an official Debian source, but for a reason that I don't know (but I suspect now), the URL "http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/tzdata/tzdata_2023c-2_all.deb"; currently returns a 404 error. I installed tzdata 2023c-2 with dpkg -i, because our severs needs the last-year updated data, but there were not a release for Debian 10, until yesterday. To resolve this issue, I had to completely remove the tzdata 2023 version and perform a clean installation of the new tzdata 2024 version. For reference, here is the error message encountered during the update, along with steps to reproduce it: Steps: 1. Install tzdata 2023c-2 on a Debian 10 system with dpkg -i 2. Upgrade to tzdata 2024 via apt 3. You will get the error root@669e2db7c3d5:/# apt search tzdata Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done tzdata/oldoldstable 2024a-0+deb10u1 all [upgradable from: 2023c-2] time zone and daylight-saving time data root@669e2db7c3d5:/# export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive root@669e2db7c3d5:/# apt install tzdata Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be upgraded: tzdata 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 283 kB of archives. After this operation, 788 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates/main amd64 tzdata all 2024a-0+deb10u1 [283 kB] Fetched 283 kB in 0s (993 kB/s) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed (Reading database ... 11086 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../tzdata_2024a-0+deb10u1_all.deb ... Unpacking tzdata (2024a-0+deb10u1) over (2023c-2) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2024a-0+deb10u1_all.deb (--unpack): unable to install new version of '/usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Africa/Abidjan': No such file or directory dpkg: error while cleaning up: installed tzdata package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2024a-0+deb10u1_all.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) root@669e2db7c3d5:/# Thanks in advance. -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.13 APT prefers oldoldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldoldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.15.146.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 (SMP w/3 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages tzdata depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.71+deb10u1 tzdata recommends no packages. tzdata suggests no packages. -- debconf information: tzdata/Zones/America: tzdata/Zones/SystemV: tzdata/Zones/Indian: tzdata/Zones/US: tzdata/Zones/Arctic: * tzdata/Areas: Etc * tzdata/Zones/Etc: UTC tzdata/Zones/Pacific: tzdata/Zones/Australia: tzdata/Zones/Asia: tzdata/Zones/Africa: tzdata/Zones/Atlantic: tzdata/Zones/Antarctica: tzdata/Zones/Europe:
