What exactly is problematic about this? The /etc/motd symlink is
removed on upgrade because it is no longer being used by the stock PAM
config, in favor of reading /run/motd.dynamic directly. (This change
was driven by the sysvinit maintainer in Debian; the previous setup
worked fine, but given that Debian has changed there doesn't seem to be
any benefit to *not* following suit.
If you had an existing /etc/motd which was not a symlink, it would be
preserved and would still be displayed on login. If you had an
/etc/motd.tail that was being appended to /run/motd by /etc/update-
motd.d/99-footer, this would now be handled by a separate invocation of
pam_motd from the relevant pam config.
If there is software in Ubuntu that's not displaying the correct output
as a result of this change, please let us know what that is. But this
doesn't appear to be a bug in the initscripts package's behavior.
** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Symlink /etc/motd gets removed on installation or upgrade from Precise
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