Re: dpkg's treatment of symlinks
Marco> I found out a little more about my current troubles with the
Marco> new versions of my packages mozart, mozart-contrib, and
Marco> mozart-doc-html. The phenomenon is this:
Jérôme> The answer is there:
Jérôme> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200107/msg01666.html
Marco> 2. What do I have to do in order to prevent it from doing it?
Jérôme> See icewm package (maintainer scripts).
I have read the thread mentioned above by Jérôme before, and I think I
understand the reason why dpkg behaves this way.
But there remains the 'no return' part of Jérôme's post which started
the thread. Does this mean the maintainer is stuck with a postinst
hack forever? How is a transition to a symlink shipped as part of the
package possible in a future version?
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