tzdata-2017b is not in any new LTS Ubuntu releases

[Lance GYW]

tzdata-2017b has been released since March 2017. There has been no new tzdata releases on LTS versions. I'm filing this as a bug since time is pretty critical. Requesting to add this package to the next release.

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Lance, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2017c-0ubuntu0.14.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-trusty. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Lance, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2017c-0ubuntu0.16.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Lance, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into zesty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2017c-0ubuntu0.17.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-zesty to verification-done-zesty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-zesty. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Hello Lance, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into artful-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2017c-0ubuntu0.17.10 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-artful to verification-done-artful. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-artful. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2017c-0ubuntu0.14.04

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tzdata (2017c-0ubuntu0.14.04) trusty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1712675, #1696298, #1691092, #1676117)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:57:23 -0700

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2017c-0ubuntu0.16.04

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tzdata (2017c-0ubuntu0.16.04) xenial; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1712675, #1696298, #1691092)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:57:23 -0700

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2017c-0ubuntu0.17.04

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tzdata (2017c-0ubuntu0.17.04) zesty; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1712675, #1696298, #1691092)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:57:23 -0700

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2017c-0ubuntu0.17.10

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tzdata (2017c-0ubuntu0.17.10) artful; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #1712675, #1696298, #1691092)

 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Nov 2017 15:57:23 -0700