On 2012-11-17 01:45, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> I suppose I could add logic to the postinst script to detect and
> repair this,

That's the usual way to fix this, there have been several of these bugs
been fixed recently.

> but it really does seem like dpkg's job to install the
> contents of the package correctly, including symbolic links.

dpkg intentionally does not replace directories with symlinks and vice
versa.


Andreas


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