Package: liferea Version: 1.8.6-1 Severity: normal I am keeping my config files under version control, and (for various unrelated reasons) elected to move the feedlist for liferea and then create a symlink to its new location. Upon running liferea the symlinks for feedlist.opml and feedlist.opml.backup have been removed and replaced with a file containing the data at the linked location.
*** Steps to reproduce: ### # clean up rm -rf ~/.liferea_1.8/ rm -rf ~/.liferea_moved # create default config liferea # move the config files ls -l ./.liferea_1.8/ mv ~/.liferea_1.8/ ~/.liferea_moved mkdir ~/.liferea_1.8 # link to the config files in the new location cd ~/.liferea_moved/ for file in *; do ln -s ~/.liferea_moved/$file ~/.liferea_1.8/$file done # test ls -l ~/.liferea_1.8/ liferea ls -l ~/.liferea_1.8/ ### *** Output of last three commands ### ls -l /home/lifereatest/.liferea_1.8/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 lifereatest lifereatest 39 Jul 5 20:22 accels -> /home/lifereatest/.liferea_moved/accels lrwxrwxrwx 1 lifereatest lifereatest 38 Jul 5 20:22 cache -> /home/lifereatest/.liferea_moved/cache lrwxrwxrwx 1 lifereatest lifereatest 44 Jul 5 20:22 cookies.txt -> /home/lifereatest/.liferea_moved/cookies.txt lrwxrwxrwx 1 lifereatest lifereatest 46 Jul 5 20:22 feedlist.opml -> /home/lifereatest/.liferea_moved/feedlist.opml lrwxrwxrwx 1 lifereatest lifereatest 53 Jul 5 20:22 feedlist.opml.backup -> /home/lifereatest/.liferea_moved/feedlist.opml.backup lrwxrwxrwx 1 lifereatest lifereatest 43 Jul 5 20:22 liferea.db -> /home/lifereatest/.liferea_moved/liferea.db liferea (liferea:5187): libnotify-WARNING **: Failed to connect to proxy ls -l /home/lifereatest/.liferea_1.8/ total 16 lrwxrwxrwx 1 lifereatest lifereatest 39 Jul 5 20:22 accels -> /home/lifereatest/.liferea_moved/accels lrwxrwxrwx 1 lifereatest lifereatest 38 Jul 5 20:22 cache -> /home/lifereatest/.liferea_moved/cache lrwxrwxrwx 1 lifereatest lifereatest 44 Jul 5 20:22 cookies.txt -> /home/lifereatest/.liferea_moved/cookies.txt -rw------- 1 lifereatest lifereatest 4854 Jul 5 20:22 feedlist.opml -rw------- 1 lifereatest lifereatest 4852 Jul 5 20:22 feedlist.opml.backup lrwxrwxrwx 1 lifereatest lifereatest 43 Jul 5 20:22 liferea.db -> /home/lifereatest/.liferea_moved/liferea.db As you can see the links (for feedlist.opml and feedlist.opml.backup) have been removed and replaced with normal files. This does not allow me to manage my config files as I would like. As far as I am concerned symlinks should be transparent to liferea. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages liferea depends on: ii gconf-service 3.2.5-1 ii gconf2 3.2.5-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libcairo2 1.12.2-1 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.5-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.3-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-1 ii libice6 2:1.0.8-2 ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 0.14.2-1 ii libnotify4 0.7.5-1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1 ii libsm6 2:1.2.1-2 ii libsoup2.4-1 2.38.1-2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1 ii libunique-1.0-0 1.1.6-4 ii libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 1.8.1-2 ii libxml2 2.8.0+dfsg1-4 ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-12+rebuild1 ii liferea-data 1.8.6-1 Versions of packages liferea recommends: ii curl 7.26.0-1 ii dbus 1.6.0-1 ii dbus-x11 1.6.0-1 ii wget 1.13.4-3 Versions of packages liferea suggests: ii network-manager 0.9.4.0-5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org