severity 426255 wishlist reassign 426255 dpkg merge 426255 182747 thanks Hi Sebastian,
I finally took the time to dig dpkg bugs, and found the following one, matching exactly your use case: http://bugs.debian.org/182747 Thanks for your report, Arnaud 2008/1/28 Arnaud Quette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > tags 426255 = moreinfo unreproducible > thanks > > Hi Sebastian, > > sorry for the eternity it took me to get back to you. > > 2007/5/27, Sebastian Kuzminsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Package: nut-cgi > > Version: 2.0.5-3+b1 > > Severity: important > > > > On my machine /var/www is a symlink to a directory off on a raid > somewhere > > with lots of stuff in it. When I purged nut-cgi it removed the symlink! > > The target directory of the symlink was untouched, and re-creating the > > symlink fixed everything with no data loss. > > > > Not sure if the problem is with nut-cgi or with dpkg's handling of the > > /var/www symlink or something else... > > I don't see anything in nut scripts that would impact /var, apart from > removing the /var/www/nut content when uninstalling nut-cgi! > > Can you still reproduce this when uninstalling the latest nut-cgi > (2.2.1-1)? > Can you reproduce this with another package that holds data in /var/www? > Do you have any other message that might help us to understand what's going > on? > > thanks, > Arnaud > -- > Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems - > http://www.mgeops.com > Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/ > Debian Developer - > http://people.debian.org/~aquette/<http://people.debian.org/%7Eaquette/> > Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/ >
