debian/changelog

+tzdata (2019c-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Paul Eggert ]
+  * Install tzdata.zi file in /usr/share/zoneinfo.  Closes: #940852.
+
+  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
+  * Use tzdata.zi to change hardlinks into symlinks.
+  * Bump debhelper compatibility to 12.
+  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.4.0 (no changes).
+  * Drop Replaces on libc6, it is not needed anymore since Lenny.
+
+ -- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>  Sat, 28 Sep 2019 23:34:21 +0200
+
 tzdata (2019c-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * New upstream version, affecting the following future timestamps:

debian/compat

-9

debian/control

 Source: tzdata
 Section: localization
 Priority: required
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9)
-Build-Depends-Indep: po-debconf, rdfind, symlinks
+Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 12)
+Build-Depends-Indep: po-debconf, symlinks
 Rules-Requires-Root: no
 Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Clint Adams <clint@debian.org>, Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>, Adam Conrad <adconrad@0c3.net>
-Standards-Version: 4.2.1
+Standards-Version: 4.4.0
 Homepage: https://www.iana.org/time-zones
 Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/tzdata
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Package: tzdata
 Architecture: all
 Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, debconf | debconf-2.0
-Replaces: libc0.1, libc0.3, libc6, libc6.1
 Provides: tzdata-bullseye
 Description: time zone and daylight-saving time data
  This package contains data required for the implementation of

debian/rules

@@ -45,10 +45,17 @@ override_dh_auto_build-indep:
 	done
 
 	# Generate a posixrules file
-	/usr/sbin/zic -d $(TZGEN) -p America/New_York
+	ln -s America/New_York $(TZGEN)/posixrules
+
+	# Generate a tzdata.zi file
+	$(MAKE) BACKWARD="backward pacificnew" VERSION_DEPS= tzdata.zi
 
 	# Replace hardlinks by symlinks
-	rdfind -outputname /dev/null -makesymlinks true -removeidentinode false $(TZGEN)
+	grep '^L ' $(CURDIR)/tzdata.zi | while read L target name ; do \
+		ln -sf $(TZGEN)/$$target $(TZGEN)/$$name ; \
+		ln -sf $(TZGEN)/posix/$$target $(TZGEN)/posix/$$name ; \
+		ln -sf $(TZGEN)/right/$$target $(TZGEN)/right/$$name ; \
+	done
 	symlinks -r -s -c $(TZGEN)
 
 	# Generate the templates file

debian/tzdata.install

 debian/tzconfig /usr/sbin
 tzgen/* usr/share/zoneinfo/
 iso3166.tab usr/share/zoneinfo/
+tzdata.zi usr/share/zoneinfo/
 zone.tab usr/share/zoneinfo/
 zone1970.tab usr/share/zoneinfo/
 leap-seconds.list usr/share/zoneinfo/