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Bug#1057185: tzdata: leap-seconds.list expires in 28 December 2023 for Bullseye

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Vincas Dargis

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Dec 1, 2023, 3:30:04 AM12/1/23
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Package: tzdata
Version: 2021a-1+deb11u10
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I've started seeing these kind of log messages via logcheck on our
oldstable machines:

```
Dec 1 08:06:43 dev ntpd[963]: leapsecond file
('/usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list'): will expire in less than 27
days
```

It will expire at the end of the year:

```
$ fgrep expires /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list
# File expires on: 28 December 2023
```

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.8
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'oldstable'), (100, 'bullseye-fasttrack')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-26-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.77

tzdata recommends no packages.

tzdata suggests no packages.

-- debconf information excluded

Aurelien Jarno

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Dec 1, 2023, 3:20:05 PM12/1/23
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Hi,

On 2023-12-01 10:23, Vincas Dargis wrote:
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2021a-1+deb11u10
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I've started seeing these kind of log messages via logcheck on our
> oldstable machines:
>
> ```
> Dec 1 08:06:43 dev ntpd[963]: leapsecond file
> ('/usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list'): will expire in less than 27
> days
> ```
>
> It will expire at the end of the year:
>
> ```
> $ fgrep expires /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list
> # File expires on: 28 December 2023
> ```

There is an update in progress that should arrive in a few days. Note
that there is no leap second at the end of the yes, so there is no
impact besides the warning message.

Regards
Aurelien

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Patrik Schindler

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Dec 1, 2023, 4:00:04 PM12/1/23
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Hello,

thank you.

You are correct that there is no impact besides the warning message for this year. This message triggering many emails multiple times a day from 60 logcheck supervised machines is an impact, though.

Thus, may I kindly ask what circumstances are prohibiting an update *before* this message starts to appear? For future occasions.

Again, thank you.

:wq! PoC
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