Trouble with symlinked conffiles

[Marcus Better]

Jan-Pascal van Best wrote:
>> Why can't you just put the file in /etc/tomcat5.5/policy?

> I could, but it's configuration for the solr web application,

No, it's a security policy file for Tomcat, and those go in the Tomcat conf
directory as any Tomcat administrator should know (and as documented in the
README). I don't think it would be a huge problem.

This is similar to packages that put their conffiles
in /etc/cron.daily, /etc/logrotate.d and so on.

> Also, the upgrade path would still be broken.

I fail to see the problem, could you detail it a bit?

Cheers,

Marcus