[Ben Finney, 2015-10-22] > How are they bad? Searching for “dpkg” and “symlink” doesn't help me > to know what you're referring to. Can you point us to some official > Debian packaging documentation to explain what that means?
see f.e. #626203 or https://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/07/18/deciphering-one-of-dpkg-weirdest-errors-unable-to-open-pathtofoo-dpkg-new/
