Bug#526940: system-tools-backends: g-s-t incorrectly reports some timezones

[Michael Terry]

Package: system-tools-backends
Version: 2.6.0-2ubuntu8
Severity: normal
Tags: patch l10n

Some timezones are getting misreported as a different timezone.  At least,
Helsinki is misreported as Mariehamn and Belgrade is misreported as Sarajevo.

This is because g-s-t checks for a zoneinfo match for /etc/localetime, but
there may be more than one and it just takes the first match.  Rather,
according to Debian policy since 4.0 (http://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges),
/etc/timezone should be checked.

There are upstream and downstream bugs:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354661
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/system-tools-backends/+bug/43644

I'll attach the small patch needed to fix this.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers jaunty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'jaunty-updates'), (500, 'jaunty-security'), (500, 'jaunty')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages system-tools-backends depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.110ubuntu5    add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                    2.9-4ubuntu6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.12-0ubuntu2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.80-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.20.1-0ubuntu2 The GLib library of C routines
ii  libnet-dbus-perl         0.33.6-1build2  Extension for the DBus bindings
ii  libpolkit-dbus2          0.9-2ubuntu1    library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2               0.9-2ubuntu1    library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-20ubuntu4   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

system-tools-backends recommends no packages.

system-tools-backends suggests no packages.

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