[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Mar 10 02:27:42 UTC 2014


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> But this is where the answers start to have drawbacks.  As just one
> example, renaming the directory will break other packages which installed
> files into that directory.

Oh, I was thinking of unowned files. If the files inside the directory are 
owned by other packages, fail the transaction with a file conflict (not an 
obscure cpio error).

        Kevin Kofler



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