Marc Haber wrote: > having a non-conffile symlink in /etc is causing data loss if the > symlink name was already present in the file system (#420578). It is > easy to forget marking symlinks explicitly as conffiles in the package > since debhelper does this automatically for plain files placed into > /etc. > > Please consider having debhelper do this for symlinks as well.
Isn't this known to create packages that dpkg will not install at all? (#421344). Until I see some evidence that dpkg does the right thing for conffiles that are symlinks, debhelper can't do that. AFAIK, dpkg has never intended symlinks to be conffiles, the UI for diffing conffiles also won't work, etc. -- see shy jo
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