Bug#668400: /usr/bin/apt-get: Apt-get purge/remove delete file behind symlink
Rafal Kaminski
rafal.kaminski at young-internet.com
Wed Apr 11 17:57:11 UTC 2012
Hi,
I've tested this one on Tomcat6 too. It was the same ... When I removed tomcat6 it deleted my files behind symlinks.
Thank you.
On Apr 11, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> reassign 668400 tomcat7,dpkg
> thanks
>
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 05:47:15PM +0200, Rafal Kaminski wrote:
>> Package: apt
>> Version: 0.8.15.10
>> Severity: normal
>> File: /usr/bin/apt-get
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> I found some bug or feature apt-get. I've installed tomcat7 and in folder /etc/tomcat7 I put symlink to diff. folder - like to /data/file1.
>> Then in /etc/tomcat7 I had symlink file1.
>>
>> When I made "apt-get remove tomcat7" or "apt-get remove --purge tomcat7" -> apt-get didn't remove symlink from /etc/tomcat7, BUT
>> REMOVE file from /data.
>>
>> After apt-get remove I hadn't file1 in /data/file1.
>>
>> Is it CORRECT?
>>
>
> It's at least not an APT bug, so I'll let the dpkg and
> tomcat7 maintainers talk about it.
>
> --
> Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
>
> See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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Rafal Kaminski
mobile: 0049 160 90753540
Operations Engineer
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