Re: Bug#87124: shouldn't remove /var/state/apt if set in apt.conf
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, KORN Andras wrote:
> I think the postinst shouldn't just remove /var/state/apt if the apt.conf
> file referenes it.
There is no legitimate reason for doing this, I consider it to be quite
broken.
> 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.
That turns out to be considerably difficult, I think we actually decided
it might be impossible to do 100% correctly.
Jason
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