Bug#506258: dpkg doesn't handle symlinks to directories as directory

2008-11-20 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:02:54 +0100, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > Thanks for the information Guillem, though I'm wonder if this fix is > going to be applied to etch as well, or will I need to apply the fix > my self locally? As discussed on IRC, I'll be contacting the stable release team and as

Bug#506258: dpkg doesn't handle symlinks to directories as directory

2008-11-19 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
Package: dpkg Version: 1.13.25 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 6.6 After mailing the dpkg mailing list, I was instructed that I should file a bug, so here it is: In the php5 package, the current situation is that /etc/php5/cgi/conf.d is a symlink to /etc/php5/conf.d; By failing to know th