Hello Raphael, and hello world, On 2011/12/05 12:08PM, Raphael Hertzog wrote: [...] > >You have to deal with multiple cases: > >1/ replacing a directory with a symlink > > v1 has /foo/bar as directory > v2 has /foo/bar as symlink > [...] Now I have a problem :) I interpret your notation as: before, we have a directory /foo/bar; after, we have a symlink /foo/bar. Where is the directory supposed to go after I run the script's option? [...] > >Have you read the parts of the debian policy that explain dpkg's behaviour >with symlinks and directories? > I've looked into the debian policy and the only specific thing I've found is about symlinks (in section 10.5. of /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz), that basically describes the cases when a link should be absolute and when relative. Did you refer to something else? TIA and all the best, -- Gianluca Ciccarelli http://disi.unitn.it/~ciccarelli GPG key ID: FDF429B0
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