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This bug was fixed in the package tzdata - 2025b-3ubuntu1

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tzdata (2025b-3ubuntu1) questing; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - Ship 2025a ICU timezone data which are utilized by PHP in tzdata-icu
    - Add autopkgtest test case for ICU timezone data
    - Point Vcs-Browser/Git to Launchpad
  * Update the ICU timezone data to 2025b (LP: #2107950)
  * Add autopkgtest test case for ICU timezone data 2025b
  * Drop /etc/timezone and remove it on upgrades (LP: #2109511)

tzdata (2025b-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * Update Dutch debconf translation.
    Thanks to Frans Spiesschaert <Frans.Spiesschaert@xxxxxxxx>
    (Closes: #1103355)

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * d/tzdata.config: quote variables to prevent word splitting

tzdata (2025b-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Benjamin Drung ]
  * Update German debconf translation.
    Thanks to Holger Wansing <hwansing@xxxxxxxxxxx> (Closes: #1101584)
  * Update Turkish debconf translation.
    Thanks to Atila KOÇ <atilakoc@xxxxxxxxx> (Closes: #1102353)

  [ Aurelien Jarno ]
  * Update Romanian debconf translation.
    Thanks to Remus-Gabriel Chelu <remusgabriel.chelu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
    (Closes: #1101815)
  * Update Catalan debconf translation.
    Thanks to Carles Pina i Estany <carles@xxxxxxxx> (Closes: #1102616)

 -- Benjamin Drung <bdrung@xxxxxxxxxx>  Fri, 02 May 2025 11:32:59 +0200

** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Remove /etc/timezone starting with Ubuntu 25.10 (questing)

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  As described in https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/plucky-puffin-release-
  notes/48687#p-120902-tzdata the next Ubuntu 25.10 (questing) release,
  the /etc/timezone file will be automatically removed and support for
  it in the maintainer scripts will be completely dropped.

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