dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988

[debhelper.git] / dh_link

diff --git a/dh_link b/dh_link
index 89414121ac8ed1aaf4feac3cdf83fc8bb55f1b61..db4aea81f33318650d34d24e8be3d3a6cbb72740 100755 (executable)
--- a/dh_link
+++ b/dh_link
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ when policy says they should be absolute, and relative links with as short
 a path as possible. It will also create any subdirectories it needs to to put
 the symlinks in.
 
+Any pre-existing destination files will be replaced with symlinks.
+
 B<dh_link> also scans the package build tree for existing symlinks which do not
 conform to Debian policy, and corrects them (v4 or later).