#4 abook doesn't follow symlinks

[Denis Briand]

Hello,
See: https://bugs.debian.org/357945

When editing something in the addressbook, and ~/.abook/addressbook is
a symlink, after exiting abook, the symlink is gone, and replaced by a
regular file.

Thank you
Regards

Denis Briand

[Raphaël]

I agree: preserving the symlink would be saner.
But out of curiosity what's the use case?

• if ~/.abook is a symlink, there is no issue
• if someone wants to use an addressbook in another location, --datafile/-f already do the trick
  Thus: why would one make the file ~/.abook/addressbook a symlink without exploring the possibility of datafile selection from by the command line?