Marking Won't Fix per my previous comment on this bug.
** Changed in: dpkg (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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upgrade/migration from a directory to a link broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164228
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This is (I am reliably informed) intentional behaviour in order to avoid
potentially-confusing semantics. Multiple packages can own a given
directory (and frequently do, e.g. /usr), and this is to prevent
confusion when only one of them decides to turn it into a symlink.
(Consider that one of the o
