On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > Please be so kind and keep the bug number address in the Cc > > Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:24:59PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >> Is any tetex package installed on the system, and can you give the > >> version numbers currently installed and, ideally, of the old ones before > >> the upgrade? We had a bug with /usr/local/ in tetex-base, and this might > >> be connected. > > > > Tetex is installed, tetex-base being currently version 2.0.2c-6. I don't > > know the previous version, but I think I last upgraded sometime around > > mid-january. > > Could it have been after January 24st? This is the date when we released > a version (2.0.2c-4) that erroneously shipped /usr/local/share/texmf in > the deb. This caused a symlink to be converted to a real file for one > user when he upgraded from the buggy version to the fixed version, > 2.0.2c-5 (that did no longer contain that directory).
Er, don't think so. dpkg doesn't convert symlinks to dirs. However, if a user uses tar directly, then this can occur.
