Bug#668400: /usr/bin/apt-get: Apt-get purge/remove delete file behind symlink
reassign 668400 tomcat7,dpkg
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 05:47:15PM +0200, Rafal Kaminski wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.8.15.10
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/bin/apt-get
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I found some bug or feature apt-get. I've installed tomcat7 and in folder /etc/tomcat7 I put symlink to diff. folder - like to /data/file1.
> Then in /etc/tomcat7 I had symlink file1.
>
> When I made "apt-get remove tomcat7" or "apt-get remove --purge tomcat7" -> apt-get didn't remove symlink from /etc/tomcat7, BUT
> REMOVE file from /data.
>
> After apt-get remove I hadn't file1 in /data/file1.
>
> Is it CORRECT?
>
It's at least not an APT bug, so I'll let the dpkg and
tomcat7 maintainers talk about it.
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Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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