dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index b0c2983628d6c3427787119d4357fef6f4c7ab5d..47099556a6373f717a815c3aac9801920b51f29d 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 debhelper (9.20120514) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
   * Fix versioned dependency on dpkg for xz options. Closes: #672895
+  * dh_link: Doc improvement. Closes: #672988
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 14 May 2012 11:36:06 -0400
 

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).