tzdata package has been removed at 2017-04-10

[Grzegorz Bizon]

Hello!

It appears that `tzdata` package has been removed from the tarball at 2017-04-10.

grzesiek@debian: ubuntu $ wget https://partner-images.canonical.com/core/xenial/20170331/ubuntu-xenial-core-cloudimg-amd64.manifest
grzesiek@debian: ubuntu $ wget https://partner-images.canonical.com/core/xenial/20170410/ubuntu-xenial-core-cloudimg-amd64.manifest
grzesiek@debian: ubuntu $ diff *
94d93
< tzdata 2016j-0ubuntu0.16.04

In other words `tzdata` package is not present in https://partner-images.canonical.com/core/xenial/20170410/ubuntu-xenial-core-cloudimg-amd64.manifest.

Best regards,
 Grzegorz

[Mitar (mitar)]

This broke my Docker images. :-(

https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/issues/2863

[MrTux (mrtux)]

My docker builds is also broken.
Can anyone else tell me why this package was removed?

[Tao Wang (twang2218)]

This is also broke my image based on Ubuntu, which will set `TZ=Asia/Shanghai`, they used to work, but not anymore. It's a behavior change, which affect a lot people, so it shouldn't be changed quitely.

And it's also not consistent with `14.04` image behavior, which contains `tzdata` package, so support `TZ` environment variables.

[Jason Roelofs (jason-roelofs)]

It's concerning that the sister bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1682305 was marked as Wont Fix.

This is a breaking change. Please revert both changes (locales and tzdata). Or are we supposed to consider all releases of official Ubuntu images to be unstable?