Upgrade deleted my /opt symlink

[edA-qa]

I believe one of the Adobe upgrade packages caused my </opt> directory to be unlinked. Usually I symlink this directory to a path on another partition </opt => /home/opt>, something I've done since Ubuntu 8 series. After doing an upgrade today that link was lost and in its place was a new </opt> with contents </opt/Adobe/Reader9>. So I assume it is acroread which broke it.

I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 with the Muon update manager, but I suspect it isn't related to those components.

I've attached a screenshot showing the other packages updated at the same time.

Description: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Release: 12.04

acroread:
  Installed: 9.5.4-1precise1
  Candidate: 9.5.4-1precise1
  Version table:
 *** 9.5.4-1precise1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise/partner amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

acroread-bin:i386:
  Installed: 9.5.4-1precise1
  Candidate: 9.5.4-1precise1
  Version table:
 *** 9.5.4-1precise1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise/partner i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

acroread-common:
  Installed: 9.5.4-1precise1
  Candidate: 9.5.4-1precise1
  Version table:
 *** 9.5.4-1precise1 0
        500 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ precise/partner amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, a new acroread release (0.9.4) is available for update, could you give it a try and tell us if the problem persists?
If you still have this bug please set back the status to "new"
thanks

[edA-qa (eda-qa)]

I installed the newest from the Ubuntu repositories. It is reporting 9.5.4.