Bug#905939: tzdata files can get corrupted via write to /etc/localtime

2018-08-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-08-13 00:57:47 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > In summary I don't believe there is a bug in tzdata. The bug should be > > reassigned to the package wrongly changing /etc/localtime. > > I'll try to get information from the administrator of the machine > about this. This came from configu

Bug#905939: tzdata files can get corrupted via write to /etc/localtime

2018-08-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2018-08-12 22:05:00 +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > The switch to a symlink has been done so that systemd (#803144), and > recent desktop environments can work on Debian. On other distributions > /etc/timezone does not exist and the timezone configuration can be > checked by looking where the sym

Bug#905939: tzdata files can get corrupted via write to /etc/localtime

2018-08-12 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On 2018-08-12 03:24, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: tzdata > Version: 2018e-0+deb9u1 > Severity: important > > On a Debian 9 machine: > > patate:~> TZ=UTC date; TZ=UTC0 date > Sun Aug 12 03:02:35 CEST 2018 > Sun Aug 12 01:02:35 UTC 2018 > > The first line is based on the /usr/share/zoneinfo/U

Bug#905939: tzdata files can get corrupted via write to /etc/localtime

2018-08-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: tzdata Version: 2018e-0+deb9u1 Severity: important On a Debian 9 machine: patate:~> TZ=UTC date; TZ=UTC0 date Sun Aug 12 03:02:35 CEST 2018 Sun Aug 12 01:02:35 UTC 2018 The first line is based on the /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC file according to strace, but this is wrong as CEST is not UTC.