On Mon, 2023-01-09 at 19:01 +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The tzdata package ships /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/ (for Coordinated > Universal Time) and /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/ (for International Atomic > Time). The files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/ are identical to their > counterpart in /usr/share/zoneinfo/. The tzdata package converts the > configured posix/* and right/* timezones to their unprefixed variant on > every package upgrade (e.g. it changes "posix/Europe/Berlin" to > "Europe/Berlin"). > > Is there anybody actually using /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix or > /usr/share/zoneinfo/right?
Debian bug #498171 indicates that there might be users. > Aurelien and I assume that probably nobody is using them. We plan to > drop both directories. If nobody speaks up, I will remove them in the > coming weeks from the Ubuntu tzdata package prior to the feature freeze. > After the Debian 12 "bookworm" release, we will remove it from Debian. I changed my opinion: Instead of dropping right/* move these files into a separate binary package tzdata-right which will not be installed by default. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
