From: Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com, Stoiko Ivanov <s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
Subject: [pve-devel] applied: [RFC installer] install: do not create deprecated /etc/timezone
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:08:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <175812528559.2807291.12268456509796192912.b4-ty@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250805214006.1111543-1-s.ivanov@proxmox.com>
On Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:40:06 +0200, Stoiko Ivanov wrote:
> starting with tzdata version 2024b-5 [0] the package does not create
> /etc/timezone anymore (background is quite well explained in
> /usr/share/doc/tzdata/NEWS.Debian.gz:
> ```
> Previously, the tzdata package in Debian used the /etc/timezone file to
> configure the system's timezone. This method is not supported by systemd
> and certain desktop environments, which instead only change the
> /etc/localtime symlink to point to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo.
> ....
> In a future release, the /etc/timezone file will be automatically
> removed ... The debian-installer from Trixie also no longer
> creates this file.
> ```
> align our installer with debian's installer.
>
> [...]
Applied, thanks!
[1/1] install: do not create deprecated /etc/timezone
commit: 037525b92039465d6ee830ad4efa86629e0f408c
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