clone 360673 -1 severity -1 wishlist reassign -1 dpkg retitle -1 dpkg: should check for changed types of conffiles ?
In #360673, a package included a symbolic link from /etc/mtab to /proc/mounts. Installing the package causes /etc/mtab to be overwritten, and purging the package causes it to be removed. I reported it as a grave bug, since no package should overwriting or removing a file that doesn't specifically belong to that package. However, I wonder whether this exposes a "bug" that dpkg should handle better. Installing lessdisks-terminal didn't cause a conffile prompt (for me) presumably because [ md5sum(/proc/mtab) = md5sum(/etc/mtab.dpkg-new => /proc/mounts) ] I know that dpkg intentionally doesn't overwrite symlinks with directories and vice-versa, but I think that in this case (at least) I should have been prompted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
