Re: dpkg bug?

[Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>]

On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 12:34:35PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> The new recode 3.5 now contains a library, so following policy about
> shared libraries I have splitted the main package in three: recode,
> librecode0 and librecode-dev.
> 
> However, I had the "bright" idea of taking advantage of the fact that
> recode depends on librecode0 by making /usr/doc/recode to be a symlink
> to /usr/doc/librecode0.
> 
> Well, dpkg does not handle this. When upgrading from recode 3.4.1,
> /usr/doc/recode becomes an empty directory, not a symlink.

I had the same situation with dotfile modules. Dpkg simply did not
want to replace directories with symlinks.

> Questions:
> 
> *) Is this a dpkg bug?

Most probably.

> *) Regardless of it being a bug or not: It is documented that probably it
> should not be done?

I don't know. I've handled it manually, in preinst.

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