Hi, On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 04:32:34PM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: > The symlink is not marked as a conffile because debhelper (specifically > dh_installdeb) does not mark symlinks to be installed in /etc as > conffiles. According to #421346 this is intentional as dpkg does not > work correctly with conffile symlinks (#421344, #690051). Thus the > apparent fix of marking it as a conffile explicitly is likely unwise.
The workaround is to stop shipping the symlink in the package, but create it in postinst (and remove it on purge in postrm). This probably needs some care to handle the upgrade. Cheers, Ivo
