Hi Guillem,

On 07/22/15 15:19, Guillem Jover wrote:
>>
>> If dpkg is unreliable, then what are the package signatures good for?
> 
> I'm not sure which package signatures you're talking about. But, no, this
> is very old “expected” behavior, it's documented both in the dpkg FAQ:
> 

I can assure you that this is not expected. Instead of a symlink
there was an empty directory, breaking the development environment
on some of our build hosts.

>   
> <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#Q:_Will_dpkg_replace_a_symlink_with_a_directory_or_vice_versa.3F>
> 

If I got this right, then not taking care of the previous
/usr/include/asm directory it is a serious bug in gcc-multilib.
It should have provided a preinst script for that. Is this
correct?


Regards
Harri


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