Bug#87124: shouldn't remove /var/state/apt if set in apt.conf

["KORN Andras" <korn@chardonnay.math.bme.hu>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.0
Severity: normal

Hi,

I think the postinst shouldn't just remove /var/state/apt if the apt.conf
file referenes it.

The preinst script should check whether there are references to the
/var/state/apt directory, and, if so, leave the symlink it creates in place.

Otherwise, apt is completely broken after the update.

Regards,

Andrew

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-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux chardonnay 2.4.1 #4 Mon Feb 12 16:31:13 CET 2001 i586

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.2.2-1     GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10                1:2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library