Bug#170592: tetex-base: improperly handling /usr/share/texmf/doc symlink

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:05:53PM +0900, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> I believe I found the reason of the lost of the symlink
> and it is tetex-extra which removed the symlink!
> 
> In the tetex-extra.preinst, there was lines;
> 
>   if (-l "/usr/share/texmf/doc") {
>     unlink "/usr/share/texmf/doc";
>   }

You know, having now looked at tetex-extra.preinst, I recommend that
you just remove the whole preinst entirely; it serves no useful
purpose as far as I can tell, and can happily damage the other
packages.

   Julian

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