Re: svgalib ...

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Peter Tobias writes ("Re: svgalib ..."):
> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> > >I think Peter's leftover .dpkg-new files were from the previous
> > >version of the package, before the conffiles were symlinks.
> > 
> > Peter, does that sound plausible?
> 
> Yes, but the *.dpkg-new files are not the problem. The real problem
> is the fact that the config files in /etc/vga are broken symlinks:
> 
> /etc/vga:
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Feb 21 02:46 libvga.config -> vga/libvga.config
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         1789 Feb  3 03:36 libvga.config.dpkg-new
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Feb 21 02:46 libvga.et4000 -> vga/libvga.et4000
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         4715 Feb  3 03:36 libvga.et4000.dpkg-new
> 
> It works after removing the broken links and moving the *.dpkg-new
> files back to libvga.config and libvga.et4000.

dpkg will not create symlinks for conffiles, unless the symlinks are
actually in the package.

Richard, email me when the package is on chiark and I'll take a look
at it.

Ian.