Re: Why this?

[Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org>]

* Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org) [001127 22:44]:
> > ola@chrystal:~/build/mcal$ dpkg -c libmcal0_0.6-3_i386.deb 
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:58:08 ./
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:57:53 ./usr/
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:58:01 ./usr/lib/
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root     38216 2000-11-27 21:58:01 ./usr/lib/libmcal.so.0.6
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:57:53 ./usr/share/
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:57:53 ./usr/share/doc/
> > drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:58:02 ./usr/share/doc/libmcal0/
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root      1105 2000-11-26 14:43:40 ./usr/share/doc/libmcal0/copyright
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root       231 1999-12-02 09:01:39 ./usr/share/doc/libmcal0/changelog.gz
> > -rw-r--r-- root/root       377 2000-11-27 17:18:26 ./usr/share/doc/libmcal0/changelog.Debian.gz
> > lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:57:32 ./usr/lib/libmcal.so -> libmcal.so.0.6
> > lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2000-11-27 21:57:32 ./usr/lib/libmcal.so.0 -> libmcal.so.0.6
> 
> a) How did you get it to do that odd ordering!?

I think this ordering was introduced in the last dpkg release as a feature so
links were not created befor the file which it linked to was there. 

Is that possible?