On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 07:44:34PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-07-11 19:07 +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 and `dpkg' will follow the symlink if > > there is one. > > And changing it would break quite a few things.
Examples of those things ? How to reproduce those breakages ? Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
