[Python-apps-team] Bug#691704: Bug#691704: /usr/share/doc/cython-dbg is empty on upgrade

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2013-05-13 06:17, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> I wonder what was the reason for this decision -- do you have any
> reference or explanation/example?  on a quick look everyone seems
> just to state that this is intentional but no good example/reason is
> given.  technically it sounds to be feasible (just move directory into a
> 'backup' location, and then clean that one up in step 11 -- just as with
> files), so there must be some gotcha.

It allows the local admin to create arbitrary symlink trees in the file
system that will be preserved by dpkg. dpkg does not have enough meta
information to distinguish between "shipped" and "local" symlinks. Maybe
this will change for jessie ...


Andreas