Bug#295213: general: Upgrade removed /usr/local (symlink)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Tuomo Valkonen <tuomov@modeemi.fi> wrote:

> Package: general
> Severity: grave
> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
>
>
> Apt-get upgrade just moments ago removed my /usr/local/ symlink and
> replaced it with a hierarchy of empty directories. The contents of
> the proper /usr/local/ on another disk seem to be intact.

Is any tetex package installed on the system, and can you give the
version numbers currently installed and, ideally, of the old ones before
the upgrade? We had a bug with /usr/local/ in tetex-base, and this might
be connected.

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer