Hi!

On Tue, 2014-02-18 at 03:04:44 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.17.6
> Severity: normal

> please document how to use the symlink_to_dir/dir_to_symlink
> dpkg-maintscript-helper commands correctly if they are being introduced
> "too late", e.g.
> 
> version 1 ships a symlink
> version 2 ships a directory
> version 3 starts using d-m-h symlink_to_dir
> 
> IMHO prior_version should be 3~ in this case.

This is covered in the man page but with conffiles as example, I guess
I can clarify this there though.

> And how does the symlink/dir conversion behave in the context of downgrades?

Downgrades are just not supported, the current path should be kept as
is. I can document that too.

Thanks,
Guillem


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