Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib
On 13-Sep-01, 10:27 (CDT), Elie Rosenblum <fnord@cosanostra.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:53:49AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 10:51:04PM -0400, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
> > > Would turning /usr/lib/procmail-lib into a symlink to the appropriate
> > > location be acceptable? I would really rather avoid breaking every rcfile
> > > that currently uses any of these recipes.
> >
> > This, in particular, won't work, because dpkg won't replace a directory with
> > a symlink. You could, however, replace the files themselves with symlinks,
> > and if you decide that it is important enough to transparently preserve
> > backward compatibility, I would recommend that you do that.
Hmmm, I thought that had been fixed, but I may be thinking of something
else.
> Good point, I hadn't gotten that far yet. Thanks.
But what you can do is add the symlink in the postinst. This would mean
failures while the install was processing, but then again, so would no
symlink at all :-).
--
Steve
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