On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 11:38:06AM -0400, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Suppose version 1 of the package had a file named /foo/A, > and version 2 had changed the location to be /bar/A. > > Without doing anything special on the part of the developer, is it > always true that upgrading the package version 1->2 will remove /foo/A > before installing /bar/A? > > If so, has there ever been a bug (in dpkg/apt/whatever) that > broke this? > > I ask because I have suddenly discovered /usr/bin/gvx (dated from > march 2000) which is the old location for /usr/lib/geomview/gvx. I > changed the location when I adopted the package last fall. I'm > wondering if I now need to add a "rm -f /usr/bin/gvx" in the postinst.
Er, that would be bad. dpkg should have removed the old file when installing the new package. I guess it would be hard to file a bug unless you can reproduce it... -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
