On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:42:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Now, we could warn on symlinks in /etc in general, not to tell people to
> make them conffiles but rather to point out this possible bug, but in that
> case the bug only triggers if the symlink replaces something that was
> previously
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.29
> Severity: normal
(New feature requests are really wishlist, even if the feature would be
very nice to have. I try to keep normal for false positives and similar
problems that can lead people to not use lintian at all.
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.29
Severity: normal
Hi,
having a non-conffile symlink in /etc causes data loss on package
installation if the symlink name was already there as a file
(#420578). The file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile check does not seem
to fire for symlinks.
Please consider having
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