On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 14:50 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Felipe Sateler <fsate...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Do conffiles have to be regular files? Policy does not seem to be > > explicit about this (although I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this), > > it seems to just talk about "files". > > I don't believe that listing symlinks as conffiles works properly at the > moment. See #421344. It doesn't make any sense to list a directory as a > conffile. I think that exhausts all the non-regular files that can be in > a Debian package.
Thanks for the quick answer. FWIW, this question comes because checkinstall currently tags everything as a conffile, which caused dpkg to fail when directories were tagged. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
