Package: tzdata Version: 2015g-1 Severity: wishlist Hello, Michael Biebl and I just discussed about /etc/timezone, as we carry a patch for that in systemd [1]. For a long time, tzdata (and systemd-timedated) copied /usr/share/zoneinfo/... to /etc/timezone because we needed to account for having a separate /usr. However, since initramfs-tools 0.117 (in Jessie) /usr always gets mounted in the initramfs, so during system boot we can rely on it. Hence the original reason for not using a symlink is moot now. Would you consider turning it into a symlink now? We'd gladly follow along in systemd and drop that patch. With a symlink there's less conffile jitter on timezone updates, less chance of it becoming inconsistent with newer tzdata updates, fewer things to be put into your /etc/ git backup; and I don't believe that /etc/timezone is really meant to be changed by admins -- i. e. it's not meant to be a conffile, it just was there because in earlier Debian releases a symlink was unreliable during early boot. Thanks for considering! Martin [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/tree/debian/patches/timedated-don-t-rely-on-usr-being-mounted-in-the-ini.patch -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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