On 2021-03-16 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: libvigraimpex-doc > Version: 1.11.1+dfsg-8 > Severity: serious > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: piuparts
> Hi, > an upgrade test with piuparts revealed that your package installs files > over existing symlinks and possibly overwrites files owned by other > packages. This usually means an old version of the package shipped a > symlink but that was later replaced by a real (and non-empty) > directory. This kind of overwriting another package's files cannot be > detected by dpkg. [...] We have ametzler@argenau:~/GIT/writing/vigra-debian$ head -n5 debian/libvigraimpex-doc.maintscript # 1.11.1+dfsg-2 shipped the symlink, -3 did not. symlink_to_dir /usr/share/doc/libvigraimpex-dev/html /usr/share/doc/libvigraimpex-doc/html 1.11.1+dfsg-3~ libvigraimpex-doc while old libvigraimpex-doc has: ametzler@argenau:~/GIT/writing/vigra-debian$ dpkg --contents /tmp/libvigraimpex-doc_1.11.1+dfsg-2_all.deb | grep /usr/share/doc/libvigraimpex-dev/html lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2019-03-10 20:07 ./usr/share/doc/libvigraimpex-dev/html -> ../libvigraimpex-doc/html This used to work. It tested this when doing the switch. Now it looks like I have to use # 1.11.1+dfsg-2 shipped the symlink, -3 did not. symlink_to_dir /usr/share/doc/libvigraimpex-dev/html ../libvigraimpex-doc/html 1.11.1+dfsg-3~ libvigraimpex-doc But /usr/share/doc/libvigraimpex-doc/html and /usr/share/doc/libvigraimpex-dev/../libvigraimpex-doc/html Earlier versions of dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) worked with the debian/libvigraimpex-doc.maintscript we have (verified with dpkg 1.19.7). cu Andreas
