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Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink



Julian Gilbey wrote:
> I just upgraded my unstable system today.  In the process, my /usr/doc
> -> /usr/share/doc symlink disappeared.  I didn't notice till
> afterwards, but I'm pretty sure that's what did it.  (It was there
> yesterday, and it's unlikely to have been anything else.)
>
> Below is the diff between yesterday and today's dpkg -l \* | grep ^ii
> output; I haven't had a chance to examine all of these packages,
> though.  Anyone have any ideas which package might be guilty for doing
> this?

Every of them. None of them. Most probably, you just happened to
remove or upgrade the last package containing /usr/doc in your system,
and, as a result, dpkg removed it, since it was not a non-empty directory.



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