Re: Bug#395853: apache2-common: removes symlinks on upgrade

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen@err.no) [061029 06:54]:
> * "Thomas Schoepf" 
> 
> | > Given that a2dissite is not called as part of any of the maintainer
> | > scripts for apache2.2-common, I somehow don't think the problem lies
> | > with Apache here.
> | 
> | apache2-common does remove all symlinks in its postrm on purge:
> | 
> |     for i in `find /etc/apache2 -type l`; do
> |         rm -f "$i"
> |     done
> 
> Then don't purge it before installing apache2.2.  apache2.2-common
> works around this.  As this seems to be an user error rather than an
> error in the package, there's nothing we can do to fix this.  Mind if
> I close the bug?

Yes, I mind. I have done the following test:
apt-get --purge install apache2
ln -s $somefile /etc/apache2/site-enabled/testsite
(added sid to sources.lists)
apt-get --purge install apache2
and the symlink was gone.


I propose the following workaround: Upload a new apache2 version into
sarge for the next pointrelease which fixes the postrm code - as usual
the release notes will propose to use the latest point release, so that
should work.


Cheers,
Andi
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