Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> Also, some people might be relaying in the file's current location for >> something. Should I put a symlink in their place? > > Just a warning: Symlinks that are shipped in the deb and point to > conffiles (not just directories) are not a good idea. > > bug #420578
Oh, since your statement confused me a bit, but reading the bug log clarified it: The problem is not with any symlink pointing to conffiles, in particular not with the common case of fixing non-FHS-aware applications by creating symlinks from /usr/share/ to /etc. The problem is specifically with symlinks from /etc to some other place in /etc, and is caused by the fact that debhelper does not mark symlinks in /etc as conffiles. Has this aspect been discussed with the debhelper maintainer? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
