Dropping /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix and /usr/share/zoneinfo/right from tzdata

[Benjamin Drung]

On Tue, 2023-01-10 at 10:15 +0000, Robie Basak wrote:
> Hi Benjamin,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 07:01:05PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> > Aurelien and I assume that probably nobody is using them. We plan to
> > drop both directories. If nobody speaks up, I will remove them in the
> > coming weeks from the Ubuntu tzdata package prior to the feature freeze.
> > After the Debian 12 "bookworm" release, we will remove it from Debian.
> 
> I have no particular opinion on this specific change, as I'm not
> familiar in this area. One request though: we have a special SRU
> procedure for tzdata here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#tzdata. Please could you
> ensure and test that this process will still work reasonably, avoiding
> the accidental removal of this feature from stable releases?
> 
> It sounds like it might be fine without needing to do anything special,
> but I thought it important to mention and test in the case of tzdata
> specifically because it is a special case.

I am fully aware of the SRU procedure for tzdata. This change should
only be implemented for Ubuntu >= 23.04 and not backported to the stable
releases.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer