Re: Issue with Bug#112121: procmail-lib: Recipes belong in /usr/share, not /usr/lib

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 12:53:49AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > Would turning /usr/lib/procmail-lib into a symlink to the appropriate
> > location be acceptable?
> 
> 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,

Well, if it was package's own directory, that is, no other packages had ever
put stuff in there, the new postinst could just rm -rf it and make it a
symlink.

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