|| On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:37:25 -0800
|| Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
mz> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:27:28AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
>> also sprach Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> [2004.12.28.0350 +0100]:
>> > Until a symlink is provided for backward compatibility (/media/cdrom ->
>> > /cdrom), this would break working systems.
>>
>> ... this does not prevent you from changing to use /media/cdrom.
>> I purposely removed the /cdrom symlink to find problematic packages
>> which still use it.
mz> There are a large number of installed systems which use /cdrom in
mz> /etc/fstab. Changing apt-cdrom's default mount point to /media/cdrom would
mz> break apt-cdrom on those systems, unless there is some process to convert
mz> them on upgrade.
But this kinda of upgrade process probably broke the policy since you
will need change /etc/fstab directly.
Another option is provide a symbolic link to old place and then
providing backward compatibility.
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