Bastien Roucaries <[email protected]> writes: > I think we should update and ask a debconf question during upgrade if we > detect /var being a symlink, that is the only problematic case, and > upgrade if not the case during preinst
> Moreover it will allow sysadmin possibility to bail out and use bind > mount if we detect a symlink Oh, this is a good point. I don't think we have to decide this in Policy (we can leave it to Santiago to decide in base-files; I'm not sure if there are special considerations for debconf prompting at that low of a level in the package dependency tree), but I can see the merits in that approach. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
