severity 28519 grave retitle 28519 dpkg: creates circular symlinks [POSSIBLE WORKAROUND] thanks
Some (not thorough) experimentation indicates to me that this problem can be worked around by proper use of Conflicts: The scenario that uncovered this bug was somewhat ugly. Two possible situations exist at upgrade time. /usr/X11R6/dir/foo -> /etc/X11/dir/foo or /usr/X11R6/dir -> /etc/X11/dir This causes a big headache when the conffile /etc/X11/dir/foo is moved to a different package (and thus, so is the symlink that points to it). By having newpackage Conflict: with oldpackge (<< version where move took place), this *seems* to be avoided. I am not yet certain about this workaround, though. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Mob rule isn't any prettier just because [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you call your mob a government. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
