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

[Benjamin Drung]

Here is the debdiff for jammy. debian/test_timezone_conversions found
even more inconsistencies in jammy:

ERROR: Following 4 timezones cannot be selected, but are not converted:
America/Fort_Wayne
America/Indianapolis
America/Knox_IN
America/Louisville
ERROR: Following 3 timezones are conversion targets, but are not available:
Asia/Riyadh87
Asia/Riyadh88
Asia/Riyadh89
ERROR: Following 4 timezones are conversion targets, but are not selectable:
America/Indianapolis
Asia/Riyadh87
Asia/Riyadh88
Asia/Riyadh89
ERROR: Following 1 timezones are converted, but they do not match their symlink targets:
US/Indiana-Starke

** Patch added: "tzdata_2024a-0ubuntu0.22.04.1.debdiff"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/2055718/+attachment/5761748/+files/tzdata_2024a-0ubuntu0.22.04.1.debdiff

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

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

Bug description:
  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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