Package: base-files
Version: 6.4
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

Eddy Petrișor wrote[1]:

> I've just found this bug and I must say is a real pain for vendors
> which package stuff which installs in /opt.
>
> I also found an easy way to reproduce the bug. See the bottom of this
> message for details.
>
> As a test one of the guys at work made /opt a symlink and we observed
> that, although other directories were present in /opt, after the
> removal of any of the
> packages that has files in /opt, the symlink is gone somewhere right
> after or during prerm.

I would only expect that to happen when the last package owning /opt
is removed.  But that much sounds believable, which makes this sound
like a good reason to add /opt to base-files.  Santiago, what do you
think?

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/182747



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