Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> 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. Sorry for being unclear. > 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? Actually the problem is that dpkg does not handle the case (#421344) sanely and therefore debhelper cannot (#421346) do it. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]