Bug#183357: Making a symlink in the post installation script?

[Tore Anderson]

  As I realized the current Exim version in Sarge is probably not going
 to be the released one, I started thinking a bit about this issue
 again, hoping that there are still time to resolve it.

  And then it struck me.  A solution so simple that I feel really
 stupid having spent a lot of time masterminding all kinds of complex
 solutions earlier in the bug log.  (Well, "masterminding" might be
 inappropriate as nobody but me thought the ideas were any good. :-)

  Anyway:  Why don't we just simply check in the post installation
 script of exim4-base if any of the problematic files from Woody's exim
 package is present, and if they are not, make a symlink from "exim" to
 "exim4" in /usr/sbin.  This way all new installations will get the
 regular binary, and so will all upgrades that doesn't have the
 problematic files from Woody's Exim.  The postinst could also be made
 to print a little warning if the problematic files were detected.

  The postrm would of course need to take care to delete this symlink,
 too.

  I cannot see any problems whatsoever with this solution, not
 policy-wise, not implementation-wise, nor functionality-wise.  However
 it's so simple that surely someone must have thought of it before and
 rejected it?  So I wonder if I'm making a fool out of myself right now
 by not realizing somthing blindingly obvious, but hey - if I don't and
 it makes it into Sarge it was certainly worth taking the risk.  :-)
 So - what do you think?

Kind regards,
-- 
Tore Anderson