Comment 18 for bug 854622

Steve Langasek [2011-09-30 5:37 -0000]:
> So glib2.0 needs to clean up its historic mis-migration.

Hmm, the preinst files do

if [ "$1" = "upgrade" ] && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl 2.27.5-2; then
    rm -f /usr/share/doc/libglib2.0-dev
fi

I. e. correctly use lt-nl (thus don't fire on fresh installs), and
also shouldn't affect natty upgrades, and don't create any symlinks.
Given that this was reproduced using a natty install and oneiric
upgrade, I don't see how this would introduce this bug. But maybe I'm
missing something here?

debian/* doesn't use "ln" anywhere, and there is just one *.links for
gtk-doc.

The natty package is identical in all those regards.

Right now I'm really stumped how this symlink ever actually got
created. It's like black magic :(

Thanks for any hint,

Martin
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