Bug#395853: apache2-common: removes symlinks on upgrade

["Thomas Schoepf" <schoepf-debian@gmx.de>]

> | package: apache2-common
> 
> Please don't file bugs against non-existent packages.

It was existant at least a week ago (I'm running testing). Obviously it was removed with the upgrade to apache2.2-common. I didn't recheck that.
At the moment, http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/apache2-common says it still exists.

> Given that a2dissite is not called as part of any of the maintainer
> scripts for apache2.2-common, I somehow don't think the problem lies
> with Apache here.

apache2-common does remove all symlinks in its postrm on purge:

    for i in `find /etc/apache2 -type l`; do
        rm -f "$i"
    done


So whenever apache2-common gets purged (e.g. after the upgrade to apache2.2-common), one has to recreate those links.

In my opinion this is a bit too eager. Better have some unused links (created manually or by other packages) than to have to recreate them.

Thanks,
Thomas
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