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Bug#218516: linux-kernel-headers: Check for symbolic link before installing



Package: linux-kernel-headers
Version: 2.5.999-test7-bk-5
Severity: normal

To compile some apps, I add to use recent kernel headers and 
thus linked by hand asm,scsi,linux using symbolic links directly 
to the real linux includes. Installing the linux-kernel-headers 
packages screwed my real kernel includes.

As I know many people do this to get accurate API/constant (even if its 
arguably a mistake).

I think testing for symblic link and removing them is easy in 
preinst and could save a lot of problems...

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tri-yann 2.4.23-pre9 #10 Thu Oct 30 17:24:08 CET 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_IE

-- no debconf information




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