❦ 29 septembre 2012 12:35 CEST, Salvatore Bonaccorso <car...@debian.org> :
>> In roundcube package, I am turning existing directories to symlinks and >> symlinks into directories. It seems that dpkg does not like that: >> symlinks are not replaced with the appropriate directories. I didn't >> find anything about this in the documentation. How should I handle such >> cases? > > This is indeed intentional, that dpkg never replaces directories with > symlinks if directory is present, see [1] and [2] (under 4.). > > [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/404850 > [2]: > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase > > Andreas Beckmann recently is filling many of these bugs discovered by > piuparts runs (updating Squeeze -> Wheezy). Most common approach there > is to do the substitution in postinst, in case the directory is there. > See for example [3]. > > [3]: http://bugs.debian.org/687859 > > Does this helps? Thanks for the pointers! I now understand why this does not work. Fixing in postinst is quite difficult since I have swapped symlinks and, from the bug reports, successive installs make the situation worst (things got installed in the wrong place). Well, I need to work a bit on this. -- /* * Hash table gook.. */ 2.4.0-test2 /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c
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