On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:07:49PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-07-11 18:53 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > > In my opinion, regardless of the order in which these two packages are > > installed, dpkg should fail to install the second package, with an error > > message about /usr/include/tcl. > > Policy (ยง6.6) actually documents this behavior: > > A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic link to a > directory or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or > not) will be left alone
OK. > and `dpkg' will follow the symlink if there is one. I'm not convinced that this is a good choice. Do you know where this choice comes from ? Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
