On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:25:50 -0500 Shelby Cain <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: tzdata > Version: 2012e-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 > Severity: important > > Every time an update to the tzdata package is published, it results in my /etc/timezone being reset from > "US/Central" to "America/Chicago". While technically America/Chicago is indeed the same timezone, it is > unintuitive to say the least considering the fact that I live 929 miles (~1500 km) from Chicago, Illinois.
There are symlinks in /usr/share/zoneinfo for backward compatibility. US/Central is a symlink pointing to America/Chicago. The Debian package updates some of those backward compatible symlinks to their new targets (see convert_timezone in debian/tzdata.config). This is useful for changes like renaming Kiev to Kyiv. These timezones that are updated are not presented as option in debconf – except for the symlinks in US. This is inconsistent and needs to be fixed. So there are two possible solution: 1. Drop the US area from the debconf template. Then only continents and oceans remain as areas. This would be more consistent. 2. Drop the US/* timezones from convert_timezone. It tend to prefer option one (for consistency), but I can see that users might find option two easier for them. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
