Bug#563601: debian-policy: discuss symlinks as conffiles
Russ Allbery
Version: 3.8.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Currently, the discussion in Debian Policy of conffiles doesn't mention
symlinks, although symlinks in /etc are mentioned elsewhere. Marking a
symlink as a conffile currently doesn't work in dpkg (see Bug#421344),
but is otherwise an arguably useful thing to do, and current dpkg behavior
can discard changes to symlinks. This should probably be noted explicitly
in Policy.
The section on conffiles also doesn't say anything explicit about
directories. While it's probably obvious from the phrasing, it wouldn't
hurt to say explicitly that directories should not be marked as conffiles.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
debian-policy depends on no packages.
debian-policy recommends no packages.
Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii doc-base 0.9.5 utilities to manage online documen
-- no debconf information
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