On 7 July 2006 at 12:47, Ross Boylan wrote:
| On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 14:14 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:53:07AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
| > I don't know. I tend to run only unstable/testing so I have more or less
| > forgotten when and how this changed. But the changelog documents it.
| >
| > If you can't test it, we simply won't test it.
| >
| I installed the version from stable, but the manual entry was not a
| symlink. The upgrade to testing went smoothly. Judging from the
| comments in the changelog, manual being a symlink is a pretty feature;
| it's a little surprising it survived so long on my machine.
Yes, I think this is a long-standing dpkg issue that the directory/symlink
transition cannot be handled perfectly (and I'm sure there are reasons for
the current behaviour or it would long have gotten fixed). I had similar bugs
over the years whem moving files, directories, ...
And I agree that this will be triggered only if and when an older intial
Debian installation gets upgraded -- so rarely. The preinst should take care
of that. I think the issue is well addressed now.
Thanks again for your input and testing.
Cheers, Dirk
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