On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:38:10AM +0200, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote: > it seems that older versions of the sendmail packages (rmail, > sendmail-base, sendmail-cf, sendmail-doc, sensible-mda) installed > symlinks in /usr/share/doc pointing to the sendmail directory. > Newer versions ship their own directories there.
Oups, this was my fault. The symlinks are still installed in current package versions. However, these package ship their own /usr/share/doc directories and content overwriting files of the other packages or being overwritten theirself. This, in turn, leads to errors in md5 checking of the packages (which, in turn, did point me to the wrong assumption above :)): # debsums -s rmail sendmail sendmail-base sendmail-bin sendmail-cf sendmail-doc sensible-mda debsums: checksum mismatch sendmail file /usr/share/doc/sendmail/buildinfo.gz debsums: checksum mismatch sendmail-base file /usr/share/doc/sendmail-base/buildinfo.gz debsums: checksum mismatch sendmail-base file /usr/share/doc/sendmail-base/NEWS.Debian.gz debsums: checksum mismatch sendmail-cf file /usr/share/doc/sendmail-cf/buildinfo.gz debsums: checksum mismatch sendmail-doc file /usr/share/doc/sendmail-doc/buildinfo.gz # Which of the files in which package are overwritten by which others is more or less random. So, if you think it is a good idea to continue shipping the symlinks, please make at least sure you don't ship equally named files with different contents in different packages then. regards Mario -- > As Luke Leighton said once on samba-ntdom, "now, what was that about > rebooting? that was so long ago, i had to look it up with man -k."
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