Comment # 63 on bug 1177428 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Takashi Iwai from comment #62)
> Cleaning the directory can be dangerous at upgrading, so I'd like to avoid
> the hackish way.
> 
> The hardlink was established by fdupes call for the duplicated files, and
> this seems causing problems.  As mentioned in the above, now I changed the
> call with -s option to use symlink instead of hardlink, and this must work
> around the pitfall.  The fixed package is on its way to TW.

This looks very much like bug 1175025. This is fixed in RPM 4.16, but breaks
too many package builds so won't be checked in soon. I'll try to convince mls
to backport instead.