Bug#323702: marked as done (linux-headers-2.6.12-1: recursive symlinks prevent module-assistant from building modules)
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Wouter Coekaerts wrote:
> > 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...
that's why it is called unstable.
> 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.
whatever, feel free to reopen.
sorry i do not care, please drop me of cc.
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maks
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