Just to clarify, when I have a package a which contains a directory b
and I release a new version from it in which I've replaced directory b
with a symlink, the user who upgrades package a from old version doesn't
get a symlink b but an empty directory b.
Assuming the directory b contained a lot of files and subdirectories,
any software that is unaware of the directory hierarchy changes in
package a tries to search stuff from the empty directory b and will
horribly break.
In these cases, upgrading via removing and reinstalling package a will
give a desired result (symlink b instead of empty directory b).
In my opinion, dpkg should *at least* warn about this.
Regards,
Jussi
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