Paths from slice dependency are not preserved (symlink vs directory)

[woky]

[NOTE: I'm telling chisel to create /lib symlink because base-files contains it not as a symlink but as a directory and dotnet package needs that to be a symlink because the dotnet executable links to /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 but libstdc++6 package installs it in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6. On Ubuntu usrmerge package does the job in postinst but we don't have that so that's why I'm creating the symlink manually. (To make dotnet work.)]

When a slice lists a path entry as a symlink to directory and some other slice depends on it and installs its files into symlink, the symlink is not preserved but instead a directory is created at that path. Example:

Configuration:

$ tail release/slices/*
==> release/slices/base-files.yaml <==
package: base-files
slices:
  lib:
    contents:
      /lib: { symlink: /usr/lib }
      /usr/lib/:

==> release/slices/libc6.yaml <==
package: libc6
slices:
  libs:
    essential:
      - base-files_lib
    contents:
      /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6:

In this snippet you can see that /lib is not a symlink even though libc6_libs depends on base-files_lib which should create it.

$ rm -rf output && mkdir output
$ chisel cut --release release/ --root output/ base-files_lib libc6_libs
...
2022/06/02 10:39:14 Extracting files from package "base-files"...
2022/06/02 10:39:14 Extracting files from package "libc6"...
$ tree --noreport output/
output/
├── lib
│   └── x86_64-linux-gnu
│       └── libc.so.6
└── usr
    └── lib

In this snippet you can see that /lib is created as symlink when no other slice installing files at that path is being installed. But afterwards it fails to install because of the symlink:

$ rm -rf output && mkdir output
$ chisel cut --release release/ --root output/ base-files_lib >/dev/null
...
2022/06/02 10:38:46 Extracting files from package "base-files"...
$ tree --noreport output/
output/
├── lib -> /usr/lib
└── usr
    └── lib
$ chisel cut --release release/ --root output/ libc6_libs
...
2022/06/02 10:38:58 Extracting files from package "base-files"...
2022/06/02 10:38:58 Extracting files from package "libc6"...
error: cannot extract files from package "libc6": open output/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: permission denied