I'm not sure if I submitted this as a bugreport yet, and I don't have net access right now. However: the current documentation states that packages need to create symlinks after their targets. Unfortunately that only works on filesystems for which dirent ordering is chronological and if packages don't remove files in between creating the target and the symlink. A very fragily approach. Starting with dpkg 1.7.0 this is no longer necessary since dpkg-deb will reorder the files itself. The text in the packaging manual should be update to be something like: With older dpkg releases (before 1.7.0) it was necessary to place the library before the symlink .. etc. etc. Starting with release 1.7.0 dpkg will reorder the files itself when building a package. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@wiggy.net http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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