Bug#995387: dpkg: remove-on-upgrade deletes symlink targets owned by another package

Hi! On Thu, 2021-09-30 at 16:21:21 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.20.6 > Severity: grave > Justification: breaks unrelated packages by removing their conffiles > > attached is a small package demonstrating the misbehavior of > remove-on-upgrade which may delete symlin

Bug#995387: dpkg: remove-on-upgrade deletes symlink targets owned by another package

Package: dpkg Version: 1.20.6 Severity: grave Justification: breaks unrelated packages by removing their conffiles Hi Guillem, attached is a small package demonstrating the misbehavior of remove-on-upgrade which may delete symlink targets. It builds foo.deb (which has 'remove-on-upgrade /etc/old-