Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> writes: > Er no, this is not how dpkg behaves. It never converts symlinks to > directories or vice versa, so the actual outcome is¹ that your file gets > actually installed into /usr/lib through the symlink. This means that > if another package starts shipping a file with the same name in > /usr/lib, dpkg will not notice the file conflict which is bad.
> It's much worse if you ship files in /lib64, because if your package is > installed into a chroot and unpacked by the host dpkg with the --root=… > option, the files end up in the host system². So we should absolutely forbid this in Policy instead of just removing the requirement. I'll open a bug against debian-policy for this. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y618kse6....@windlord.stanford.edu
