timezone setting should be moved to the locale package

[Sebastien Bacher]

While dist-upgrading today I got a timezone question:

""Running 'tzconfig' to set this system's timezone.
Your current time zone is set to Europe/Paris
Do you want to change that? [n]:"

locale has some issues too due to packages change (locales 2.3.7-6 installed):

"Can't exec "locale": No such file or directory at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 16.
Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Encoding.pm line 17."

from IRC:

<jbailey> seb128: I think the timezone question is probably glibc getting confused because of the new locales not being there. Would you mind filing a bug with that info in it, and the comment that the timezone settings should probably move to the locales package, rather than being handled in libc6?

[Jeff Bailey (jbailey)]

For those experiencing this bug, please install locales version 2.3.9 or 2.3.10.

I will target the upload that fixes this bug for Wednesday (partly because of travel, partly because I want to give time for #30621 to get looked at).

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

[meba (jakub-rtfm)]

Confirming, after upgrading to 2.3.10, problem disappeared.
This version should be forced for all users, my apt-get update && apt-get upgrade didn't upgrade locales...

[Philipp Kern (pkern)]

Same here, the normal update mechanism does not pick it up.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is fixed in dapper now, thanks Jeff :)