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Add a note in NEWS about the /etc/timezone deprecation


Signed-off-by: default avatarAurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
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tzdata (2024b-6) unstable; urgency=medium
Previously, the tzdata package in Debian used the /etc/timezone file to
configure the system's timezone. This method is not supported by systemd
and certain desktop environments, which instead only change the
/etc/localtime symlink to point to a file in /usr/share/zoneinfo.
For this reason, starting with version 2024b-5, the tzdata package no
longer automatically creates the /etc/timezone file, but still updates it
if it exists. In a future release, support for the /etc/timezone file will
be completely removed. The debian-installer from Trixie also no longer
creates this file.
The system's timezone configuration can still be done interactively using
Debconf by reconfiguring the tzdata package, using 'dpkg-reconfigure
tzdata'. The way to programmatically read or configure the system's
timezone is described in /usr/share/doc/tzdata/README.Debian.
-- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:25:11 +0100
tzdata (2023d-1) unstable; urgency=medium
From 2023c-8 on the tzdata package ships only timezones that follow the
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