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Re: Pygame/SDL-Mixer bug



On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> On mar, 2004-08-10 at 11:57 -0600, Ed Boraas wrote:
> > Hi, Joss.
> >
> > I'm passing a bug (#262981) your way -- it was reported against pygame,
> > but turned out to be caused by an incorrect old sdl-mixer symlink on the
> > user's machine. I'm not certain if it's just a quirk with this one
> > particular user or not, but I thought you'd want to look at it (and it's
> > definitely not a problem in pygame).
>
> Looks like it is related to dpkg's symlink handling. The user must have
> changed the libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0 symlink in the past, and it seems that
> in this case, dpkg won't update it when upgrading the package.
>
> Can one of the dpkg gurus confirm this is expected behavior?

Only for directories.



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