On 2012-09-05 10:32:45 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Fabian Greffrath <fab...@greffrath.com> (05/09/2012): > > Obviously, you manually changed the symlink "70-no-bitmaps.conf" to > > point to another file "../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf". However, > > the symlinks are expected to point to files of the same name in the > > ../conf.avail directory. > > Says which doc? None AFAICT. Does conf.d/README talk about debconf at > all? Hell no.
I'd say that the conf.d/README file should be updated to mention that some symlinks may be managed by debconf. > I started with a removal of the symlink. That change (too) was lost by > the upgrade process. This is a RC bug. No, the fact that a symlink change (whether this is done manually or by a configuration via debconf) is not preserved after upgrade is not regarded as a RC bug. Quoting Steve Langasek[*]: Debian policy requires that local changes to configuration files are retained. This generally implies that packages should try to preserve configuration values represented in other ways (such as symlinks), but this is not a requirement of policy. And as I've pointed out, there are significant high-profile examples where admin changes to symlinks are not preserved. [*] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412159#68 -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
