On Mon, 13 May 2013, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > given. technically it sounds to be feasible (just move directory into a > > 'backup' location, and then clean that one up in step 11 -- just as with > > files), so there must be some gotcha.
> It allows the local admin to create arbitrary symlink trees in the file > system that will be preserved by dpkg. hm -- I see... indeed even I rely on that somewhat from time to time ;) > dpkg does not have enough meta > information to distinguish between "shipped" and "local" symlinks. Maybe > this will change for jessie ... do you know any related bug report / discussion? -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Senior Research Associate, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
