Simon: that is the behaviour of the tzcode utilities: when adding the compatibility links, it only tries to create a symlink if hardlinking failed. So you aren't seeing any changed behaviour from before.
I did notice that the copy of the timezone database that postgresql installs seems to use symlinks though ... -- Daylight Saving changes in Western Australia https://launchpad.net/bugs/72125 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs