Re: RC bug: symlinks in /etc
Piotr Lewandowski <piotr.lewandowski@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear debian-devel@,
> I need your advice on an RC bug[1] in l7-protocols. The package ships
> protocols definitions which are located in /usr/share/l7-protocols.
> Since l7-filter-userspace is looking for those definitions in
> /etc/l7-protocols, the package ships symlinks in /etc/l7-protocols for
> every protocol definition. Those symlinks weren't marked as conffiles
> (due to #421346) but it didn't matter anyway since dpkg does not handle
> symlink connfiles very well (#421344).
> I have proposed report several options in this bug report, but none of
> them are completely satisfying (at least for me).
You seem to have the same problem that the ca-certificates package has.
Maybe use the same solution?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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