[Bug 2016025] [NEW] schroot made by mk-sbuild have broken TZ info

[Simon Chopin]

Public bug reported:

mk-sbuild copies /etc/timezone and /etc/localtime to the schroots it
creates, but tzdata is not part of the default package set, resulting in
/etc/localtime being a broken symlink and the actual time zone as
reported by `date(1)` is UTC no matter what /etc/timezone reports.

I think this should be removed from mk-sbuild since it doesn't work as
intended, and it can have side-effects breaking builds in non-obvious
ways, since some package have embedded timezone data (e.g. icu) that can
mismatch with the system. icu's test suite is broken by this, with
failures in the test intltest::tztest::TestGenericAPI.

** Affects: ubuntu-dev-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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  schroot made by mk-sbuild have broken TZ info

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