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Bug#323702: marked as done (linux-headers-2.6.12-1: recursive symlinks prevent module-assistant from building modules)



> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 05:25:38PM -0400, Paul Kuliniewicz wrote:
> > Hmm.  I purged the packages, deleted the cached .debs, and
> > re-installed, and now everything looks to be as it should be.  I'm not
> > sure what had happened there.  I think I had version -2 of the .deb and
> > then upgraded it to -5, but I don't remember for sure.
> >
> > Everything seems to be working now, so I guess you can close this bug.
>
> doing as requested. ;)

No, this bug isn't fixed at all! There's just a workaround, which is 
uninstalling and reinstalling the package. But (as far as I know) everyone 
who follows unstable close enough and has this package and didn't apply 
this workaround, still has the broken situation.
It would be nice if a next version would repair that situation somehow...

I don't know anything about how symlinks are supposed to be handled 
in .debs, but as long as nobody can point out what was done wrong in the 
packaging of linux-headers-2.6.12-1, this could just as well concidered a 
bug in dpkg, as it looks like it handled this upgrade wrong.

Wouter.

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