Bug#668400: /usr/bin/apt-get: Apt-get purge/remove delete file behind symlink

[Guillem Jover]

Control: reassign -1 tomcat7

Hi!

On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 20:22:12 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 17:47:15 +0200, Rafal Kaminski wrote:
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 0.8.15.10
> > Severity: normal
> > File: /usr/bin/apt-get
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Given the directory removals in tomcat7's postrm script I'm inclined
> to think this is tomcat7 (and tomcat6) fault, but it would be helpful
> to know what exactly did you symlink, was it the /etc/tomcat7 directory
> itself, one of the conffiles inside? Something else?

I'm reassigning to the tomcat7 package.

Regards,
Guillem