Re: ca-certificates symlinks out of /etc

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Martin F Krafft]
> I consider this a bug, and even release-critical, and would say that
> ca-certificates should use ucf to maintain the certificates in
> /etc/ssl/certs. Arguments against that are to keep /etc small, but
> at 444k I don't see ca-certificates being a culprit.
>
> Comments?

I would say the bug is in the user expectations, not in the use of
symlinks.  Blindly overwriting a "file" without checking if it is a
symlink seem like the bug to me. :)

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen