Re: symlinks replaced by directories and vice versa
>>>>> "Mario" == Mario Holbe <Mario> writes:
Mario> Hello, IMHO, one of the most frequently re-appearing issues
Mario> in package-upgrades is symlinks in previous package
Mario> versions replaced by directories in current versions and
Mario> vice versa. Although the Debian policy clearly states in
Mario> 6.6 (4) "A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic
Mario> link to a directory or vice versa" it seems to me that many
Mario> package maintainers cannot deal well with this behaviour or
Mario> just don't know it.
If you want to replace a directory with a symlink, and the directory
still contains files, what do you do with these files?
You can't just delete them, the sysadmin may still want them.
Just moving locally created files around might break some things in
some cases.
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>
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