[Bug 2058249] Re: US symlinks missing in /usr/share/zoneinfo -> now in tzdata-legacy

[Bill Evans]

Thank you, that certainly resolves the missing files.

While I understand the reason behind the switch, I can't find where the
"intentional change" is communicated. There is no `apt changelog
tzdata`, and nothing else I see gives me a hint that the package was
split in that way. While it may not impact everybody like it did me, is
there some way to formally communicate this, perhaps within the package
description for `tzdata`?

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Title:
  US symlinks missing in /usr/share/zoneinfo -> now in tzdata-legacy

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  On 22.04 Jammy with tzdata version 2024a-0ubuntu0.22.04 installed, we
  have `/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/*` symlinks. On 23.10 Mantic with tzdata
  version 2024a-0ubuntu0.23.10, we do not. Is this an intentional
  removal? I don't follow the IANA mailing lists, but I had
  thought/assumed that "Country/Region" symlinks were being maintained
  for backward compatibility.

  Many tools I use reference multiple timezones (regardless of the
  system TZ), so it is necessary to have them available. As a temporary
  workaround, we can make the symlinks manually.

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