On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:18:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > > Would turning /usr/lib/procmail-lib into a symlink to the appropriate
> > > > location be acceptable?
> > >
> > > This, in particular, won't work, because dpkg won't replace a directory
> > > with
> > > a symlink. You could, however, replace the files themselves with
> > > symlinks,
> >
> > Well, if it was package's own directory, that is, no other packages had ever
> > put stuff in there, the new postinst could just rm -rf it and make it a
> > symlink.
>
> ...and the new prerm remove it, and future versions of these scripts until
> the end of ti^W^W^Wrelease after next...
Actually, if you'd also ship the symlink in the new .deb, dpkg would remove
it. Or am I missing your point?
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