Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports
On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 21:05 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 03.03.2013 22:53, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >
> > Seeing the poor handling of symlinked conffiles, I'm wondering if we
> > should also remove them for the other affected packages, which do that:
[...]
> After a closer look, all those packages do *not* mark the symlinks as
> conffiles, so are not affected by this problem. So I wouldn't suggest
> any changes at this stage of the release.
> As for syslog-ng-core, I think the simplest solution for wheezy is to
> add the symlinks back to the package
> /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service
> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/syslog-ng.service
> but does *not* mark them as conffiles.
> + the usual cleanup of the existing conffiles via preinst.
The first iteration is ready to check[1]. I don't recall previous
conffiles, but on purge the files are removed.
Laszlo/GCS
[1] dget -x http://www.barcikacomp.hu/gcs/syslog-ng_3.3.5-3.dsc
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