On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 18:52:09 (-0500), Pocket wrote: > On 12/22/23 18:04, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 16:16:07 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > 1. https://bugs.debian.org/803144 > > > > 2. https://bugs.debian.org/346342 > > > Wow, OK. Fascinating historical context in there. > > > > > > I've updated <https://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges>. I believe it's > > > correct now, for both current and historic systems, although I can't > > > swear to the pre-Etch stuff. > > Another bug at: > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=726256 > > > > * copy /etc/localtime instead of symlinking (Closes: #726256) > > > From the email I got from Lennart > > CHANGES WITH 255: > > Announcements of Future Feature Removals and Incompatible Changes: > > * Support for split-usr (/usr/ mounted separately during late boot, > instead of being mounted by the initrd before switching to > the rootfs) > and unmerged-usr (parallel directories /bin/ and /usr/bin/, > /lib/ and > /usr/lib/, …) has been removed. For more details, see: > https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2022-September/048352.html > > > * Support for System V service scripts is now deprecated and > will be > removed in a future release. Please make sure to update your > software > *now* to include a native systemd unit file instead of a legacy > System V script to retain compatibility with future systemd > releases. > > So that bug is m[oot]
It's not the bug, but changes in /etc/localtime that are the concern of this thread, ± side-effects on the importance of /etc/timezone. It appears that Debian has switched between /etc/localtime being a regular file and a symlink several times. BTW, I think Debian is somewhat behind Lennart, as even bookworm is AFAIK only up to 252. As for SysV, my bullseye has 39 scripts in /etc/init.d/, and there are still plenty with bookworm. Cheers, David.
