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



On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:12:35PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:

> 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.

...and the new prerm remove it, and future versions of these scripts until
the end of ti^W^W^Wrelease after next...

-- 
 - mdz



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