Comment 2 for bug 262825

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Mark Painter (mpainter) wrote :

This bug causes things like lines of logging to have incorrect timestamps for a short period of time during the locales postinst. This may lead to problems with log scraping and alerting.

In the development branch, the locales postinst does not touch the timezone so this is not an issue.

TEST CASE: run the locales postinst when the value in /etc/timezone matches the /etc/localtime symlink -- there should be no unlink of /etc/localtime

No regression is expected with this patch, there is no reason to depend upon timezone being flaky.