Bug#156463: marked as done (dpkg: Doesn't replace obsolete dirs with symlinks on upgrade)
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From: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>
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Subject: dpkg: Doesn't replace obsolete dirs with symlinks on upgrade
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Greetings,
When a package should replace a dir with a symlink on upgrade, it doesn't.
For example, an old libc6-dev on ARM had the directory
/usr/include/asm/arch which is now a symlink to arch-ebsa285. Upgrading
the libc6-dev package left the (empty) dir, and did *not* replace it
with the symlink of the new package. Removing libc6-dev successfully
removed the dir, and reinstalling got the symlink in there. (See bug
151669, and the related debian-arm thread started on 2002/8/9.)
So something appears to be wrong with package upgrade.
Zeen,
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 13:03:36 +0200
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>, 156463-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#156463: dpkg: Doesn't replace obsolete dirs with symlinks on upgrade
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Previously Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> When a package should replace a dir with a symlink on upgrade, it doesn't.
On purpose. When the new package is unpacked the dir still exists and
can't be removed.
Wichert.
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