Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > Just writing to request a "second opinion" on this bug. > > Current dpkg behavior does not allow a package to replace a directory > with a symlink during upgrade. This broke a libc6-dev upgrade when I > made an unstable chroot from a potato tarball on an ARM system a > couple of months ago. See bug 151669 and the debian-arm thread I > started a while ago (URL below) for details.
I already raised the issue one year ago, and I realized dpkg should behave that way. In order to save you time: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200107/msg01666.html Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org
