Bug#2828: dpkg bug: have to install xosview twice to work
Someone mentioned this on irc, and I had a possible solution.
Dpkg gets the file list for the new, updated pkg, and compares that to the
installed list. Any files not in the new pkg, get renamed to <file>.dpkg.#,
and it is these backups that get removed after the pkg is fully unpacked.
The rename is done in the current directory of the file, so you shouldn't have
symlink probs, unless the admin used a symlink on just one file, but in that
case, you are screwed anyways.
Adam
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