On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:15:44PM +0100, Thomas Ritter wrote: | Sounds like someone had fun with the scripts. I'd like to see where it came | from. If the older version (someone with a huge local apt cache directory | could make an ls-l) doesn't have a hint to this as well, this should go to | debian-security.
http://snapshot.debian.net/archive/2003/02/16/debian/pool/main/q/qt-x11-free/ In the postinst of qt-x11-free-3.1.1-3 (dated 14 Feb 2003, incidentally) we see: > #!/bin/sh > > set -e > > if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then > if [ ! -L "/usr/share/qt3/etc/settings" ]; then > echo "Creating settings directory symlink to /etc/X11" > cd /usr/share/qt3/ && mkdir etc || true > cd etc && ln -s ../../../../etc/X11/ settings > touch /usr/share/doc/libqt3c102-mt/qtrc_it_was_me > fi > fi > > #DEBHELPER# It's also removed in the prerm. There seems to be no explanation of /why/ the file is created or destroyed, though. HTH, Cameron.
