Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -2 syslog-ng-core 3.3.5-2 Control: found -2 3.3.6-1 Control: severity -2 serious Control: retitle -2 symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports
On 2012-10-09 17:10, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 16:12:16 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Package: dpkg >> Version: 1.16.8 >> the syslog-ng-core is one of the few packages using symlink conffiles, >> causing trouble for piuparts and debsums because dpkg does not properly >> handle this. There are several other issues with symlink-conffiles, but >> none seemed to match this. > > symlink conffiles have never been supported, packages using that are > buggy and should be fixed (see also 421344 and 312846). Thanks for this clarification. No need to patch debsums to just ignore symlink-conffiles :-) Cloning and reassigning to syslog-ng. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-bugs-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
