assistance with ubuntu-docs bug

[Steve Langasek]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:47:28PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:

> > Another benefit of doing this in the postinst is that if something else has
> > added files under /usr/share/gnome/help/libs without talking to you, the
> > maintainer script will abort instead of silently rm -r'ing the files.

> I understand the general purpose of using dpkg --compare-versions for
> selectively applying broken-version fixups.

> However, as a point of interest, in this specific case, is there any
> reason to use a version comparison?

It is possible, though very unlikely, that a user may have manually switched
back to using a symlink by choice.  This is arguably unsupported and Not Our
Problem, but it's trivial to check the version (and consistent with lots of
other cases where it's much more necessary).

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