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Bug#247748: dpkg overwrites changes in rc?.d symlinks



On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 21:40 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:

> When upgrading a package with a /etc/init.d/ script and /etc/rc?.d/
> symlinks, dpkg installs the new package's symlinks, ignoring any
> modification to those symlinks. I think the state of the symlinks in
> rc?.d should somehow be handled as a config file, so that any explicit
> change would not be lost on upgrade.
> 
Which package?

Normally these symlinks aren't included in the .deb but maintained by
the package's maintainer scripts -- usually with update-rc.d

If you can state which version of which package you're seeing this with,
we can take a look to see what's *really* going on.

Scott
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