Bug#298467: gaim.postinst doesn't work if directory doesn't already exist

[Ari Pollak]

I'm afraid I'm not seeing the problem in the logic here. Can you give an 
example of a case where this would fail?

James D Strandboge wrote:
Package: gaim
Version: 1:1.1.4-2
Severity: normal
The statement:
if [ ! -h /usr/share/doc/gaim ]; then
        rmdir /usr/share/doc/gaim
...
evauluates to TRUE when /usr/share/doc/gaim doesn't exist.  Therefore
'rmdir' is called and fails, and dpkg gives errors and the install
stops.
I think you can do what you intended with:
if [ -d /usr/share/doc/gaim ]; then
        rmdir /usr/share/doc/gaim
fi
if [ ! -e /usr/share/doc/gaim ]; then
        ln -s gaim-data /usr/share/doc/gaim
fi

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