On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:15:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 01, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I understand correctly, you want /var/spool/news to exist always, > > not conditional on any package being installed. Isn't the solution to > > this just to create the symlink in the maintscripts, and *not* include > > it in the package? > I needed a symlink because of local issues. Oh, okay. So you wanted to avoid dpkg removing a local file/modification (since it has a different type)? Isn't this what local diversions are for?
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