On Mon, 09 May 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > The intent of the current behavior is that the sysadmin is free to use > symlinks to cause files in one directory to appear on a different > partition, and dpkg will leave that alone rather than replacing it > with a directory. For symmetry, dpkg will not automatically replace a > directory with a symlink, either.
The thing that we could do better is detect when we install two different files in the same place and error out earlier rather than when we're trying to remove the .dpkg-new twice. That's why I told Corsac to go ahead and submit the bug. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
