Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: > B) Is the symlink ordering issue going to be a problem for upgrades > (since the suer may have an older dpkg version, and a p[ackage > following the new 4.x policy may fail. If this is the case, the > proposal really should be rejected, until an upgrade path is > proposed. Upgrade path doesn't matter, the problem only exists at the time when a package is created. Until dpkg-deb is updated to reorder the files when creating the package developers should a) only build packages on ext2fs, and b) make sure they create files in the right order. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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