This isn't a bug that matches the stable release updates criteria, so we won't fiddle with that in dapper.
However, a similar problem still exists in Jaunty. Between the rm /etc/localtime and cp /usr/share/zoneinfo.../ /etc/localtime there is still a tiny race condition. This could be fixed by copying to localtime.new and atomically mv localtime.new localtime. Not sure whether it's worth the effort, though.
Thank you for your report!
This isn't a bug that matches the stable release updates criteria, so we won't fiddle with that in dapper.
However, a similar problem still exists in Jaunty. Between the rm /etc/localtime and cp /usr/share/ zoneinfo. ../ /etc/localtime there is still a tiny race condition. This could be fixed by copying to localtime.new and atomically mv localtime.new localtime. Not sure whether it's worth the effort, though.