On Tue, 2024-08-13 at 06:49 -0700, Steve Atwell wrote: > Package: tzdata > Version: 2024a-0+deb12u1 > Severity: minor > X-Debbugs-Cc: satw...@disjoint.net > > Dear Maintainer, > > When installing the tzdata and debconf tries to ask questions and fails > because stdin is not available, the package writes "/UTC" to > /etc/timezone, which doesn't seem to be valid (note the leading slash). > I would expect it to write either "Etc/UTC" or "UTC". > > This can happen, for example, during docker builds. (Example: > https://github.com/docker-library/buildpack-deps/issues/161) It's easy > to fix by setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive during install, but it > seems like tzdata should still be able to write the correct default > value to /etc/timezone in this situation.
This is a bug in debconf and already reported as Debian bug #723843 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debconf/+bug/1899343 A workaround would be to pre-configure the debconf answers. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
