Trouble with symlinked conffiles

[Jan-Pascal van Best]

Marcus Better wrote:
>> Also, the upgrade path would still be broken.
>>     
>
> I fail to see the problem, could you detail it a bit?
>   
This is what happens:

First, install from Lenny:
# apt-get install solr-tomcat5.5/stable
# ls -l /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy* /etc/solr/tomcat.policy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root 1211 2008-04-26 21:23 /etc/solr/tomcat.policy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat55 adm    24 2009-02-23 10:42 /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy -> ../../solr/tomcat.policy

Then update to the version without the symlink:
# apt-get install solr-tomcat5.5=1.2.0+ds2-5~pre2 solr-common=1.2.0+ds2-5~pre2
# ls -l /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy* /etc/solr/tomcat.policy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root 1211 2008-04-26 21:23 /etc/solr/tomcat.policy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat55 adm    24 2009-02-23 10:42 /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy -> ../../solr/tomcat.policy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root     root 1211 2009-02-22 19:58 /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/05solr.policy.dpkg-new

What I *think* happens is that dpkg considers everything under /etc as
conffiles, and won't overwrite them.


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