On Tue, 07 Apr 2009, Jayen Ashar wrote: > I've created a package for a proprietary software that bundles with > java. We've decided since then to replace the bundled java with a > symlink to the system java, but when our systems update the package, > they are left with an empty directory. I have attached some small test > packages that exhibit this problem if you do an update, but not if you > do a removal and install.
This is normal and unrelated to the bug 182747. If you want to replace a directory by a symlink you have to do that in the maintainer scripts on upgrade. Same for replacing a symlink with a directory. That's because dpkg tries to preserve admin changes between symlinks and directories (Debian policy document this). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
