On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 17:11:18 GMT, Naoto Sato <na...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Hello Naoto, this looks reasonable to me. Do you think we should add a >> release note for this change? > >> Hello Naoto, this looks reasonable to me. Do you think we should add a >> release note for this change? > > Good point. I will draft a release note for this change. > @naotoj Do you know what was the last Debian release where this file was > used? I'm looking at JDK-6456628 to try to understand if any of the distros > from that needed this code have any supported releases that might need it. Here is a quote from this Debian bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822733 This now leaves /etc/timezone completely redundant, as you should get exactly the same answer by readlink /etc/localtime -- and if you do not get the same answer, you have an inconsistency. /etc/localtime obviously "wins" for the actual clock (as that's what programs are reading), but you presumably get the /etc/timezone value in some "system configuration tool" packages which read /etc/timezone first. This seems to imply that as of 2016, /etc/timezone is a redundant file. Our supported Debian distros (as of JDK23) are Ubuntu 24.04LTS and 24.10, so I think we are OK just remove the support for /etc/timezone ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23755#issuecomment-2682711288
