[Bug 2070285] Please test proposed package

[Łukasz Zemczak]

Hello Justin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2024b-0ubuntu0.20.04 in a
few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to tzdata in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2070285

Title:
  package tzdata 2024a-3ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: installed
  tzdata package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit
  status 10

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in tzdata source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in tzdata source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed
Status in tzdata source package in Noble:
  Fix Committed
Status in tzdata source package in Oracular:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

  Updating the tzdata package will fail on systems that have a legacy
  timezone selected (that is not updated to a recent one during dpkg-
  reconfigure). Example:

  ```
  $ schroot-wrapper -p tzdata -c jammy -u root
  (jammy)root at host:~# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
  (jammy)root at host:~# DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
  (jammy)root at host:~# echo $?
  10
  ```

  [ Test Plan ]

  Test cases were added for Ubuntu 24.10 (oracular), Ubuntu 24.04
  (noble), and Ubuntu 22.04 (jammy) to the autopkgtest to cover the
  testing:

  * debconf: test_legacy_timezones

  So the test plan is to check that the autopkgtest succeeds. For older
  releases, run the example given above. It should exit with 0 and keep
  the configured timezone.

  [ Where problems can occur ]

  The fix touches the code that is used for configuring the timezone.
  That can cause package update to fail. There are autopkgtest to avoid
  regressions.

  [ Original report ]

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
  Package: tzdata 2024a-3ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-1018.21-raspi 6.5.13
  Uname: Linux 6.5.0-1018-raspi aarch64
  ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: arm64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CloudArchitecture: aarch64
  CloudID: nocloud
  CloudName: unknown
  CloudPlatform: nocloud
  CloudSubPlatform: config-disk (/dev/mmcblk0p1)
  Date: Mon Jun 24 09:04:36 2024
  DuplicateSignature:
   package:tzdata:2024a-3ubuntu1.1
   Setting up tzdata (2024a-3ubuntu1.1) ...
   dpkg: error processing package tzdata (--configure):
    installed tzdata package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
  ErrorMessage: installed tzdata package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
  PackageArchitecture: all
  Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.12, Python 3.12.3, python3-minimal, 3.12.3-0ubuntu1
  PythonDetails: N/A
  RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.22.6ubuntu6
   apt  2.7.14build2
  SourcePackage: tzdata
  Title: package tzdata 2024a-3ubuntu1.1 failed to install/upgrade: installed tzdata package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to noble on 2024-06-24 (0 days ago)

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/2070285/+subscriptions