Processed: Re: Bug#1043250: tzdata: bring back top-level UTC

2023-08-08 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > severity -1 serious Bug #1043250 [tzdata] tzdata: bring back top-level UTC Severity set to 'serious' from 'important' -- 1043250: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1043250 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems

Bug#1043250: tzdata: bring back top-level UTC

2023-08-08 Thread Christoph Berg
Control: severity -1 serious Re: Thorsten Glaser > >Why isn't Etc/UTC an alternative to UTC? > > It’s not as portable, it binds to the Olson database whereas > an otherwise unqualified UTC is pretty standard. Worse, if > Etc/UTC is not available, the fallback makes it assume Etc, > not UTC, as

Bug#1043250: tzdata: bring back top-level UTC

2023-08-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Benjamin Drung dixit: >Can you point to examples for it? Most of these cases should probably >use TZ=UTC0 which work without having any timezone data files. Except that tzif files contain more than DST info, such as the name of the zone, but also leap second information (not in Debian

Bug#1043250: tzdata: bring back top-level UTC

2023-08-07 Thread Benjamin Drung
On Mon, 2023-08-07 at 23:20 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Package: tzdata > Version: 2023c-8 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de > > Please bring back at the *very* least the top-level UTC symlink, > as TZ=UTC is used in *so* many places to get UTC it’s not funny. Can you

Bug#1043250: tzdata: bring back top-level UTC

2023-08-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Package: tzdata Version: 2023c-8 Severity: important X-Debbugs-Cc: t...@mirbsd.de Please bring back at the *very* least the top-level UTC symlink, as TZ=UTC is used in *so* many places to get UTC it’s not funny. A second candidate, although less used recently, is the top-level GMT symlink.