2011/8/20 Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de>

> The reason is that conffile processing takes place after
> unpacking all non-conffiles, so for hardlinks to conffiles you hit the
> ENOENT bug.  If a file is both a conffile and a hardlink in the package,
> it is treated as the latter.
>

Do I understand it right?
When installing a package:
1. Unpack all regular files (+ symlinks?), except conffiles.
2. Create hardlinks.
3. Process conffiles.

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