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Re: /usr/local in some packages



On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 09:27:26AM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> Herbert Xu wrote:
> > After purging emacs today, the damn thing deleted my /usr/local symlink since
> > it was the last package to have /usr/local in it.  Obviously this is not very
> > clever.
> > 
> > So we should either remove /usr/local from all packages, or tell dpkg to not
> > remove /usr/local.  I personally favour the former solution.
> 
> The former is already policy (section 3.1.2).  As far as lintian can
> tell, xemacs20-support is the only package that still breaks it.
> I've just filed a bugreport.

Well emacs20 20.2-7 /usr/local in its list too.

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