Re: tzdata-2022a_2 fails to install

[sgn <sgn@users.noreply.github.com>]

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https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/38363#issuecomment-1200375592

Comment:
> Mine fails first like this:
> 
> (For those reading, `xi` is from the `xtools` package and essentially an `xbps-install -S` shortcut.)
> 
> ```
> ❯ xi -y tzdata
> <...>
> tzdata update    2022a_1           2022a_2                -    
> <...>
> tzdata-2022a_2: unpacking ...
> tzdata-2022a_2: removed obsolete entry: ./usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US
> ERROR: tzdata-2022a_2: [unpack] failed to extract file `./usr/share/zoneinfo/right': Directory not empty
> ERROR: tzdata-2022a_2: [unpack] failed to extract files: Directory not empty
> ERROR: tzdata-2022a_2: [unpack] failed to unpack files from archive: Directory not empty
> ❯ ls -lR /usr/share/zoneinfo/{right,posix}
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix:
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 30 17:08 Canada
> 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/Canada:
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 994 May  3  2018 East-Saskatchewan
> 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/right:
> total 4
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 30 17:08 Canada
> 
> /usr/share/zoneinfo/right/Canada:
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1534 May  3  2018 East-Saskatchewan
> ```

This timezone is not existed in tzdata. It was removed from tzdata in 2017c. Not sure why it's still there.

> 
> And if I run `xi -y tzdata` again I get roughly the same logs as everybody upthread.
> 
> If I try upgrading `tzdata` on a brand new `ROOTFS` (`void-x86_64-ROOTFS-20210930.tar.xz`, which comes with `tzdata-2022a_1`) the upgrade works without fault.