[Bug 2055718] Re: timezone changed unexpectedly from EST to America/Adak or America/Indiana/Indianapolis

[Timo Aaltonen]

Hello Andreas, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into mantic-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2024a-0ubuntu0.23.10.1 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-
mantic to verification-done-mantic. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-mantic. 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
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** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu Mantic)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-mantic

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

** Tags added: verification-needed-jammy

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Title:
  timezone changed unexpectedly from EST to America/Adak or
  America/Indiana/Indianapolis

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in tzdata source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed
Status in tzdata source package in Jammy:
  Fix Committed
Status in tzdata source package in Mantic:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

  On every tzdata package upgrade the configured timezone might be
  updated to an incorrect one.

  I enhanced debian/test_timezone_conversions to detect those
  inconsistencies and fixed everything that was found by this check. The
  SRUs contain a backport of the script from noble.

  [ Test Plan ]

  debian/test_timezone_conversions is enhanced to check the timezone
  conversions for consistency to prevent such kind of issues in the
  future. debian/test_timezone_conversions is run during built and as
  autopkgtest.

  In addition, manual check can be done. The following test should stay
  at `EST` (and not update to `America/Adak`):

  ```
  ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST /etc/localtime
  dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
  ls -alh /etc/localtime
  ```

  `US/East-Indiana` should be updated to `America/Indiana/Indianapolis`
  and not to `America/Adak`:

  ```
  ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/East-Indiana /etc/localtime
  dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
  ```

  `America/Louisville` should be updated to
  `America/Kentucky/Louisville` and not to `America/Adak`:

  ```
  ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Louisville /etc/localtime
  dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
  ```

  [ Other Info ]

  The autopkgtest for chrony is flaky on jammy and newer (see bug
  #2002910).

  [ Regression potential ]

  The patch ziguard.awk-Move-link-to-link-feature-from-vanguard-to-
  ma.patch moves the link to link feature from vanguard to main dataform
  to produce correct symlinks. This results in symlinks that can point
  to symlinks. The zic from glibc that we use can handle that, but there
  might be other parsers that read /usr/share/zoneinfo/tzdata.zi
  directly and could fail to handle symlinks to symlinks.

  [ Original report ]

  A user reported this regression on
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/2052739:

  UPDATE: I don't think it's a regression anymore, see comment #5

  """
  Hello.
  After automatic upgrade of tzdata from 2023c-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 to 2024a-0ubuntu0.22.04
  the previously set EST time zone was automatically changed to "America/Adak" or "America/Indiana/Indianapolis" on all our servers (50+).
  Look like a bug in tzdata configure script.
  """

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