Re: symlinks replaced by directories and vice versa
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 01:34:51PM +0100, Loïc Minier <lool+debian@via.ecp.fr> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 09, 2006, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> > However, since this is such a frequent source of bugs and since so many
> > package maintainers seem not to be able to deal well with it, I'm asking
> > myself, if it wouldn't make sense to change this behaviour to something
> > which is more native to maintainers - i.e. automagically replace
> > symlinks by directories and vice versa (which would natively equal a
> > package upgrade to a package removal followed by an installation of the
> > new version) or abort package installation if it occurs or something
> > like this.
>
> I agree it's counter-intuitive. I seem to recall someone told me it
> was a feature of dpkg which allows local admin to e.g. ln -s /bigdisk
> /usr/share. I'm not sure this is the correct explanation, but if it
> is, then perhaps it would make more sense to support this functionality
> at the dpkg level directly, perhaps in a similar fashion to diversions
> ("I want that anything that would be installed to /usr/share be
> installed in $otherdir" sounds similar to what diversion currently do).
Directory diversions is a very old feature request.... See #30126 and #33263.
And that could be sufficient to solve the issue.
Mike
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