Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.29 > Severity: normal
(New feature requests are really wishlist, even if the feature would be very nice to have. I try to keep normal for false positives and similar problems that can lead people to not use lintian at all.) > Hi, > having a non-conffile symlink in /etc causes data loss on package > installation if the symlink name was already there as a file > (#420578). The file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile check does not seem to > fire for symlinks. > Please consider having lintian warn about this situation. It's unclear to me from previous discussion whether symlinks are actually supposed to be marked as conffiles, and even if they are, whether dpkg can cope with them properly. I'm not sure that lintian should be encouraging people to do something that dpkg doesn't handle. Currently, from Bug#421344 that you reported, it looks like marking a symlink as a conffile may cause failure to install later versions of the package, which doesn't sound like something we should be recommending currently. Now, we could warn on symlinks in /etc in general, not to tell people to make them conffiles but rather to point out this possible bug, but in that case the bug only triggers if the symlink replaces something that was previously a file, and lintian doesn't have a way of knowing that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
