On 12 August 2006 at 20:10, Marc Glisse wrote:
| Package: r-doc-html
| Version: 2.3.1-2
| Severity: normal
| 
| When I upgrade this package, I get:
| 
| Removing symbolic link /usr/share/doc/r-doc-html/manual/
| rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/doc/r-doc-html/manual/': Not a directory
| dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/r-doc-html_2.3.1-2_all.deb 
(--unpack):
|  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
| 
| Is the preinst script trying to remove the 'manual' symlink but actually
| using 'manual/', which fails?

On second thought, the '-h' vs '-d' test seems to do the right thing here.
So I am a little puzzled about what went wromg at your end...  Information
about prior versions, maybe a ls -l inside /usr/share/doc/r-doc-html/ etc
would be appreciated.

Dirk

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