[Bug 599466] Re: tzdata refers to Americas as "America"

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This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2022g-2ubuntu1

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tzdata (2022g-2ubuntu1) lunar; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - Ship ICU 2022g timezone data files which are utilized by PHP
    - Do not rename NEWS into changelog.gz, this fixes a build failure on
      moment-timezone.js
    - Point Vcs-Browser/Git to Launchpad

tzdata (2022g-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Update Czech debconf translation.
    Thanks to Miroslav Kuře <kurem at upcase.inf.upol.cz> (Closes: #1027862)
  * Update Korean debconf translation.
    Thanks to Changwoo Ryu <cwryu at debian.org> (Closes: #1027983)
  * d/tzdata.config: Update Mideast/Riyadh8[789] to Asia/Riyadh
  * Address shellcheck complaints in postinst and tzdata.config
  * d/tzdata.config: Rename Pacific/Enderbury to Pacific/Kanton
  * Replace obsolete two-level American timezones by three-level timezones
  * Translate area "America" as "Americas" in English
    (Closes: #508118, LP: #599466)

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * Update Spanish debconf translation.
    Thanks to Jonatan Porras <jonatanpc8 at gmail.com>
  * Update Polish debconf translation.
    Thanks to Łukasz Dulny <BartekChom at poczta.onet.pl>
  * Update French debconf translation.
    Thanks to Baptiste Jammet <baptiste at mailoo.org>
  * Update Hebrew debconf translation.
    Thanks to Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il>
  * Update Swedish debconf translation.
    Thanks to Luna Jernberg <droidbittin at gmail.com>
  * Drop wrong conversion of the Pacific/Enderbury timezone

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * d/rules: Exclude obsolete Uzhgorod and Zaporozhye from debconf
  * Generate debconf templates with Python
  * Drop obsolete tzconfig command (use "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" instead)
  * Do not update US/* timezones to their America/* counterparts
    (Closes: #688318, LP: #772024)
  * Fix German translation of "Indian" to "Indischer Ozean"

 -- Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com>  Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:50:27 +0100

** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  tzdata refers to Americas as "America"

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in tzdata package in Debian:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: tzdata

  The time zone configuration scripts refer to the Americas as
  "America".

  To view this bug, enter "dpkg-reconfigure tzdata". The first page
  displayed asks you to choose your geographic area, and shows a list
  that starts with:

  Africa
  America
  ...

  I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 server.

  $ lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  Release:	10.04

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