Processed: bookworm-pu: package tzdata/2024b-0+deb12u1

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affects -1 + src:tzdata

Bug #1088145 [release.debian.org] bookworm-pu: package tzdata/2024b-0+deb12u1
Added indication that 1088145 affects src:tzdata

[Benjamin Drung]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: bookworm
Control: affects -1 + src:tzdata
Usertags: pu
[ Reason ]
tzdata 2024b got released upstream back in September, but there have
many issues when this version reached unstable and there was margin
before the next change is effective (governments are making progress!),
I preferred to delay the release to better understand the issues and
avoid as much as possible breakages in stable. The next change that is
going to be effective will happen on 2024-12-28, and is the leapsecond
file expiration, but NTP servers are known to emit warnings 28 days
before, so starting on 2024-12-01.
As it will happens before the next point release, this will require the
package to be provided through stable-updates.
- Starting with glibc 2.40, zic defaults to 'slim' while some packages
still use the old format and therefore need the 'fat' version. This
obviously does not apply to stable.
- The System V zones, deprecated upstream, got moved to the
tzdata-legacy package. This is not the case for this stable update, as
the tzdata-legacy has been introduced in trixie.
- The System V zones got deprecated and replaced by symlinks to
geographical zones corresponding to each System V zone. This change is
the reason of many testsuite breakage, including in stable, due to a
change of the timezone abbreviation and behavior difference outside
of the interval of definition (e.g. DST changes in the very distant
pass or future).
In the past we handled major upstream changes by only backporting
important timezone changes, but we reverted to the upstream version at a
later point as this strategy has many drawbacks: confusion with the
version number among our users, breakage due to testsuites using
different behavior depending on the upstream version number, and missed
changes.
Instead the strategy here is to use the new upstream version, but with
the problematic part, the System V zones deprecation, reverted.

This is exactly the same approach we take with Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/2079966
I have seen no issue with this approach so far.

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

package release.debian.org
tags 1088145 = bookworm pending
thanks

Hi,

The upload referenced by this bug report has been flagged for acceptance into the proposed-updates queue for Debian bookworm.

Thanks for your contribution!

Upload details
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Package: tzdata
Version: 2024b-0+deb12u1

Explanation: new upstream release; improve historical data for some zones; confirm lack of leap second for 2024

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Post by Jonathan Wiltshire
tags 1088145 = bookworm pending

Bug #1088145 [release.debian.org] bookworm-pu: package tzdata/2024b-0+deb12u1
Added tag(s) pending.

Post by Jonathan Wiltshire
thanks

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[Jonathan Wiltshire]

Hi,

As it will happens before the next point release, this will require the
package to be provided through stable-updates.

I will do so tomorrow, assuming no show-stoppers come up before then.
I propose the following text for the SUA, are you happy with it?

====
Changes since the package currently in bookworm include an updated list of
leap seconds, avoiding a warning about the list expiring, and the
correction of historical data for Mexico, Mongolia and Portugal.
====

Thanks,

[Aurelien Jarno]

Hi,

Post by Jonathan Wiltshire
Hi,

As it will happens before the next point release, this will require the
package to be provided through stable-updates.

I will do so tomorrow, assuming no show-stoppers come up before then.
I propose the following text for the SUA, are you happy with it?
====
Changes since the package currently in bookworm include an updated list of
leap seconds, avoiding a warning about the list expiring, and the
correction of historical data for Mexico, Mongolia and Portugal.
====

Thanks that sounds good to me.

Regards
Aurelien

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