tzdata 2024b release

[Benjamin Drung]

[ Impact ]

The 2024b release contains the following changes:

* Improve historical data for Mexico, Mongolia, and Portugal.
* System V names are now obsolescent.
* The main data form now uses %z.

[ Test Plan ]

Test cases were added to the autopkgtest to cover the testing:

* python: test_2024b
* python-icu: test_2024b (only for focal and newer)

So the test plan is to check that the autopkgtest succeeds.

[ Other Info ]

The autopkgtest for chrony is flaky on jammy and newer (see bug #2002910).

There are backward-incompatible changes included:

    Names present only for compatibility with UNIX System V
    (last released in the 1990s) have been moved to 'backward'.
    These names, which for post-1970 timestamps mostly just duplicate
    data of geographical names, were confusing downstream uses.
    Names moved to 'backward' are now Links to geographical names if
    there is an exact match since 1970, and remain Zones otherwise.
    Those needing the previous TZDB behavior, which does not match any
    real-world clocks, can find the old entries in 'backzone'.
    (Problem reported by Justin Grant.)

We need to exclude this change for the SRU since it can/will break user setup (e. g. the user from bug #2055718) and it will break a handful of tests (including dateparser, pandas, posrtesql-16). See https://bugs.debian.org/1084190

[Rebecca Palmer (rebecca-palmer)]

Importing Debian's tzdata 2024b-1 is probably not a good way to do this, as it also changes to a newer format that saves space but breaks python3-dateutil and hence several other packages:

https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/proposed-migration/update_excuses.html#tzdata
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1084111

This is probably fixed in 2024b-2.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I'll merge 2024b-2 tomorrow.

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

For the SRU, keep the system V zone as they are. I tested that the newly build tzdata files haven't changed:

```
for x in CET CST6CDT EET EST EST5EDT HST MET MST MST7MDT PST8PDT WET; do cmp /usr/share/zoneinfo/$x tzgen/$x; done
```

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted tzdata (2024b-1ubuntu1) for oracular have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

astroplan/0.9.1-2 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
astropy/6.1.2-1ubuntu1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
dateparser/1.2.0-3 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
gnustep-base/1.30.0-7ubuntu1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
howardhinnant-date/3.0.1+ds-5build1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
pandas/2.2.2+dfsg-4 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
pendulum/3.0.0-2 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
postgresql-16/16.4-1build1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
python-caldav/1.3.9-1 (amd64, arm64, ppc64el, s390x)
python-datetimerange/2.1.0-1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
python-dateutil/2.9.0-2 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
python-tempora/5.5.1-1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
python-tz/2024.1-2 (amd64, arm64, s390x)
python-tz/unknown (armhf, ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/oracular/update_excuses.html#tzdata

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello Benjamin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into oracular-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2024b-1ubuntu2 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-oracular to verification-done-oracular. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-oracular. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted tzdata (2024b-1ubuntu1) for oracular have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

astroplan/0.9.1-2 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
astropy/6.1.2-1ubuntu1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
dateparser/1.2.0-3 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
gnustep-base/1.30.0-7ubuntu1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
howardhinnant-date/3.0.1+ds-5build1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
pandas/2.2.2+dfsg-4 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
pendulum/3.0.0-2 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
postgresql-16/16.4-1build1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
python-caldav/1.3.9-1 (amd64, arm64, ppc64el, s390x)
python-datetimerange/2.1.0-1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
python-dateutil/2.9.0-2 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
python-tempora/5.5.1-1 (amd64, arm64, armhf, ppc64el, s390x)
python-tz/2024.1-2 (amd64, arm64, s390x)
python-tz/unknown (armhf, ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/oracular/update_excuses.html#tzdata

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Skia (skia)]

I'm not running Oracular anymore, so can't really confirm, but Plucky is still pretty close (like almost identical), so this SRU might be hitting bug 2085147.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2024b-1ubuntu2

---------------
tzdata (2024b-1ubuntu2) oracular; urgency=medium

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * Build timezones with zic -b 'fat' (Closes: #1084111)
  * tzdata-legacy: bump Replaces: tzdata version to handle the
    Asia/Choibalsan move

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Move UNIX System V zones back from backzone to backwards file
    to keep them unchanged for the stable release updates.

tzdata (2024b-1ubuntu1) oracular; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - Ship ICU timezone data which are utilized by PHP in tzdata-icu
    - Add autopkgtest test case for ICU timezone data
    - Do not rename NEWS into changelog.gz, this fixes a build failure on
      moment-timezone.js
    - Point Vcs-Browser/Git to Launchpad
  * Update the ICU timezone data to 2024b
  * Add autopkgtest test case for ICU timezone data 2024b

tzdata (2024b-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #2079966):
    - Improve historical data for Mexico, Mongolia, and Portugal.
    - System V names are now obsolescent.
    - The main data form now uses %z.
    - Asia/Choibalsan is now an alias for Asia/Ulaanbaatar
  * Add autopkgtest test case for 2024b release
  * Update Asia/Choibalsan to Asia/Ulaanbaatar on upgrade and move
    Asia/Choibalsan to tzdata-legacy
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.0
  * generate_debconf_templates: Work around AttributeError on icu import

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:52:58 +0200

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Benjamin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into oracular-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2024b-1ubuntu2.1 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-oracular to verification-done-oracular. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-oracular. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Benjamin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into noble-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2024b-0ubuntu0.24.04 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-noble to verification-done-noble. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-noble. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Benjamin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2024b-0ubuntu0.22.04 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Benjamin, or anyone else affected,

Accepted tzdata into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/2024b-0ubuntu0.20.04 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted tzdata (2024b-0ubuntu0.20.04) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

postgresql-12/12.22-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 (s390x)
python-dateutil/unknown (ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/focal/update_excuses.html#tzdata

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted tzdata (2024b-0ubuntu0.24.04) for noble have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

chrony/4.5-1ubuntu4.2 (ppc64el)
dask.distributed/unknown (ppc64el)
golang-github-lib-pq/1.10.9-2 (ppc64el)
php8.3/8.3.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.2 (ppc64el)
postgresql-16/16.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 (ppc64el)
tzdata/2024b-0ubuntu0.24.04 (ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/noble/update_excuses.html#tzdata

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted tzdata (2024b-1ubuntu2.1) for oracular have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

chrony/4.5-3ubuntu3 (armhf)
chrony/unknown (ppc64el)
golang-github-lib-pq/1.10.9-2 (ppc64el)
pandas/unknown (ppc64el)
partd/unknown (ppc64el)
php8.3/unknown (amd64)
python3.12/3.12.7-1ubuntu1 (amd64, ppc64el, s390x)
python3.13/3.13.0-1 (arm64, ppc64el, s390x)
systemd/256.5-2ubuntu3.1 (amd64)
systemd/unknown (ppc64el)
tzdata/2024b-1ubuntu2.1 (ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/oracular/update_excuses.html#tzdata

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Verified successful autopkgtest on https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/packages/tzdata:

oracular: tzdata/2024b-1ubuntu2.1

* amd64: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-oracular/oracular/amd64/t/tzdata/20241205_173859_adda8@/log.gz
* arm64: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-oracular/oracular/arm64/t/tzdata/20241205_174701_2f4b5@/log.gz
* armhf: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-oracular/oracular/armhf/t/tzdata/20241205_174739_d2a53@/log.gz
* ppc64el: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-oracular/oracular/ppc64el/t/tzdata/20241213_232359_82d3c@/log.gz
* s390x: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-oracular/oracular/s390x/t/tzdata/20241205_173856_af105@/log.gz

noble: tzdata/2024b-0ubuntu0.24.04

* amd64: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-noble/noble/amd64/t/tzdata/20241205_181237_ab8a4@/log.gz
* arm64: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-noble/noble/arm64/t/tzdata/20241205_180342_5794b@/log.gz
* armhf: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-noble/noble/armhf/t/tzdata/20241205_180826_1089d@/log.gz
* ppc64el: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-noble/noble/ppc64el/t/tzdata/20241211_113053_ff166@/log.gz
* s390x: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-noble/noble/s390x/t/tzdata/20241205_180234_8d56b@/log.gz

jammy: tzdata/2024b-0ubuntu0.22.04

* amd64: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy/jammy/amd64/t/tzdata/20241213_081348_0329b@/log.gz
* arm64: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy/jammy/arm64/t/tzdata/20241213_082219_16cbb@/log.gz
* armhf: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy/jammy/armhf/t/tzdata/20241213_081958_f78c0@/log.gz
* ppc64el: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy/jammy/ppc64el/t/tzdata/20241213_091230_07e80@/log.gz
* s390x: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-jammy/jammy/s390x/t/tzdata/20241213_081540_0e0e9@/log.gz

focal: tzdata/2024b-0ubuntu0.20.04

* amd64: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-focal/focal/amd64/t/tzdata/20241205_172929_d71ba@/log.gz
* arm64: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-focal/focal/arm64/t/tzdata/20241205_173428_d43d6@/log.gz
* armhf: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-focal/focal/armhf/t/tzdata/20241205_173344_d43d6@/log.gz
* ppc64el: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-focal/focal/ppc64el/t/tzdata/20241213_231233_33547@/log.gz
* s390x: https://autopkgtest.ubuntu.com/results/autopkgtest-focal/focal/s390x/t/tzdata/20241205_173102_2a5f0@/log.gz

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

There was an autopkgtest failure for oracular on ppc64el:

autopkgtest for python3.12/unknown: ppc64el: Regression ♻

Given the "unknown" version, and of course checking logs, I see it was an infrastructure problem. I retried it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2024b-1ubuntu2.1

---------------
tzdata (2024b-1ubuntu2.1) oracular; urgency=medium

  * Make remaining legacy timezones selectable in debconf (LP: #2070285)

tzdata (2024b-1ubuntu2) oracular; urgency=medium

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * Build timezones with zic -b 'fat' (Closes: #1084111)
  * tzdata-legacy: bump Replaces: tzdata version to handle the
    Asia/Choibalsan move

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Move UNIX System V zones back from backzone to backwards file
    to keep them unchanged for the stable release updates.

tzdata (2024b-1ubuntu1) oracular; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - Ship ICU timezone data which are utilized by PHP in tzdata-icu
    - Add autopkgtest test case for ICU timezone data
    - Do not rename NEWS into changelog.gz, this fixes a build failure on
      moment-timezone.js
    - Point Vcs-Browser/Git to Launchpad
  * Update the ICU timezone data to 2024b
  * Add autopkgtest test case for ICU timezone data 2024b

tzdata (2024b-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #2079966):
    - Improve historical data for Mexico, Mongolia, and Portugal.
    - System V names are now obsolescent.
    - The main data form now uses %z.
    - Asia/Choibalsan is now an alias for Asia/Ulaanbaatar
  * Add autopkgtest test case for 2024b release
  * Update Asia/Choibalsan to Asia/Ulaanbaatar on upgrade and move
    Asia/Choibalsan to tzdata-legacy
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.7.0
  * generate_debconf_templates: Work around AttributeError on icu import

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:34:58 +0100

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for tzdata has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2024b-0ubuntu0.24.04

---------------
tzdata (2024b-0ubuntu0.24.04) noble; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #2079966):
    - Improve historical data for Mexico, Mongolia, and Portugal.
    - System V names are now obsolescent (reverted, see below).
    - The main data form now uses %z.
    - Asia/Choibalsan is now an alias for Asia/Ulaanbaatar
  * Add autopkgtest test case for 2024b release
  * Update the ICU timezone data to 2024b
  * Add autopkgtest test case for ICU timezone data 2024b
  * Build timezones with zic -b 'fat' (Closes: #1084111)
  * Move UNIX System V zones back from backzone to backwards file
    to keep them unchanged for the stable release updates.
  * Make remaining legacy timezones selectable in debconf (LP: #2070285)

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:59:32 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2024b-0ubuntu0.22.04

---------------
tzdata (2024b-0ubuntu0.22.04) jammy; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #2079966):
    - Improve historical data for Mexico, Mongolia, and Portugal.
    - System V names are now obsolescent (reverted, see below).
    - The main data form now uses %z.
    - Asia/Choibalsan is now an alias for Asia/Ulaanbaatar
  * Add autopkgtest test case for 2024b release
  * Update the ICU timezone data to 2024b
  * Add autopkgtest test case for ICU timezone data 2024b
  * Build timezones with zic -b 'fat' (Closes: #1084111)
  * Move UNIX System V zones back from backzone to backwards file
    to keep them unchanged for the stable release updates.
  * Test debconf configuration with autopkgtest
  * Make remaining legacy timezones selectable in debconf (LP: #2070285)

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:58:03 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2024b-0ubuntu0.20.04

---------------
tzdata (2024b-0ubuntu0.20.04) focal; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release (LP: #2079966):
    - Improve historical data for Mexico, Mongolia, and Portugal.
    - System V names are now obsolescent (reverted, see below).
    - The main data form now uses %z.
    - Asia/Choibalsan is now an alias for Asia/Ulaanbaatar
  * Add autopkgtest test case for 2024b release
  * Update the ICU timezone data to 2024b
  * Add autopkgtest test case for ICU timezone data 2024b
  * Move UNIX System V zones back from backzone to backwards file
    to keep them unchanged for the stable release updates.
  * Test debconf configuration with autopkgtest
  * Make remaining legacy timezones selectable in debconf (LP: #2070285)

 -- Benjamin Drung <email address hidden> Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:07:48 +0100