Amaya wrote: > Hi there, Stefan > > Stefan Huehner wrote: >> i think lintian has a check for this issue. Please look into [1] if >> this is what you need. >> http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tpostinst-should-not-set-usr-doc-link.html > > Great pointer. > > I guess what I also really need is to find out what packages had this > "ln -s" in the postinst in the past, because if they are not handling > the link removal upon upgrade, then users will have that link there > forever, but it will go unnoticed, as no link is created, in new > instalations of the package. > > As not all packages use debhelper, I also have no idea how to handle > this globally.
Isn't this one of the use cases of piuparts? Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D
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