Bug#404185: explanation for the bug...

[Loïc Minier]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> kaplan at desktop:/tmp/sendbox2$ ls -l ./usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 kaplan kaplan    46 2006-12-22 21:59 libglade ->
> /tmp/sendbox2/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libglade/
> Notice the "nice" symlink that was added to the file list. Since
> /usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html already exists as a symlink, ln create
> the new symlink inside it, and uses the source name for the target name
> (hence libglade -> /tmp/sendbox2/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libglade/).
> Ignore the /tmp/sendbox part... it's for the testing (:

 Ah thanks, I see now.  I thought the ln -sf was overwriting the
 previous symlink on upgrades, but it creates a symlink below the
 symlinked directory.

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