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Re: update .preinst file



Hi,

> Due to the way dpkg-maintscript-helper is implemented, the symlink
> created with dh_installdocs is ignored, so dpkg-maintscript-helper will
> create it for you. The manpage for dpkg-maintscript-helper also contains
> an explanation of why 'just removing the directory in preinst' can cause
> problems.
> 
> I think putting this into 'bogofilter-bdb.maintscript' and something
> similar in other maintscript files should work:
> 
> dir_to_symlink /usr/share/doc/bogofilter-bdb
> /usr/share/doc/bogofilter-common 1.2.4+dfsg1-8~
> 

Thanks James Cowgill.

Upload done.



Regards,
Herbert



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