On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 12:34:35PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > The new recode 3.5 now contains a library, so following policy about > shared libraries I have splitted the main package in three: recode, > librecode0 and librecode-dev. > > However, I had the "bright" idea of taking advantage of the fact that > recode depends on librecode0 by making /usr/doc/recode to be a symlink > to /usr/doc/librecode0. > > Well, dpkg does not handle this. When upgrading from recode 3.4.1, > /usr/doc/recode becomes an empty directory, not a symlink.
I had the same situation with dotfile modules. Dpkg simply did not want to replace directories with symlinks. > Questions: > > *) Is this a dpkg bug? Most probably. > *) Regardless of it being a bug or not: It is documented that probably it > should not be done? I don't know. I've handled it manually, in preinst. -- enJoy -*/\*- http://jagor.srce.hr/~jrodin/
