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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org