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and subject line Bug#1036096: fixed in jed 1:0.99.20~pre.178+dfsg-5
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regarding jed,xjed: unhandled symlink to directory conversion:
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
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Package: jed,xjed
Version: 1:0.99.20~pre.178+dfsg-4
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
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.
This was observed on the following upgrade paths:
bullseye -> sid
For /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE this may not be problematic as long as both
packages are installed, ship byte-for-byte identical files and are
upgraded in lockstep. But once one of the involved packages gets
removed, the other one will lose its documentation files, too,
including the copyright file, which is a violation of Policy 12.5:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#copyright-information
For other overwritten locations anything interesting may happen.
Note that dpkg intentionally does not replace directories with symlinks
and vice versa, you need the maintainer scripts to do this.
See in particular the end of point 4 in
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#details-of-unpack-phase-of-installation-or-upgrade
It is recommended to use the dpkg-maintscript-helper commands
'dir_to_symlink' and 'symlink_to_dir' (available since dpkg 1.17.14)
to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.maintscript.
See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details.
>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
0m42.0s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/jed/NEWS.Debian.gz (jed) !=
/usr/share/doc/jed-common/NEWS.Debian.gz (jed-common)
/usr/share/doc/jed -> jed-common
/usr/share/doc/jed/README.Debian (jed) !=
/usr/share/doc/jed-common/README.Debian (?)
/usr/share/doc/jed -> jed-common
/usr/share/doc/jed/TODO.Debian (jed) != /usr/share/doc/jed-common/TODO.Debian
(?)
/usr/share/doc/jed -> jed-common
/usr/share/doc/jed/changelog.Debian.gz (jed) !=
/usr/share/doc/jed-common/changelog.Debian.gz (jed-common)
/usr/share/doc/jed -> jed-common
/usr/share/doc/jed/changelog.gz (jed) !=
/usr/share/doc/jed-common/changelog.gz (jed-common)
/usr/share/doc/jed -> jed-common
/usr/share/doc/jed/copyright (jed) != /usr/share/doc/jed-common/copyright
(jed-common)
/usr/share/doc/jed -> jed-common
0m46.5s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/xjed/NEWS.Debian.gz (xjed) !=
/usr/share/doc/jed-common/NEWS.Debian.gz (jed-common)
/usr/share/doc/xjed -> jed-common
/usr/share/doc/xjed/changelog.Debian.gz (xjed) !=
/usr/share/doc/jed-common/changelog.Debian.gz (jed-common)
/usr/share/doc/xjed -> jed-common
/usr/share/doc/xjed/changelog.gz (xjed) !=
/usr/share/doc/jed-common/changelog.gz (jed-common)
/usr/share/doc/xjed -> jed-common
/usr/share/doc/xjed/copyright (xjed) != /usr/share/doc/jed-common/copyright
(jed-common)
/usr/share/doc/xjed -> jed-common
This is probably an older bug that never showed up in piuparts
since jed/xjed could not be tested after jed-common had failed.
cheers,
Andreas
jed_1:0.99.20~pre.178+dfsg-4.log.gz
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Source: jed
Source-Version: 1:0.99.20~pre.178+dfsg-5
Done: Rafael Laboissière <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
jed, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Rafael Laboissière <[email protected]> (supplier of updated jed package)
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2023 14:19:52 -0300
Source: jed
Architecture: source
Version: 1:0.99.20~pre.178+dfsg-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Wookey <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Rafael Laboissière <[email protected]>
Closes: 1036096
Changes:
jed (1:0.99.20~pre.178+dfsg-5) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Add files d/{jed,xjed}.maintscript.
These files allow the smooth transition for /usr/share/doc/{jed,xjed},
which were symlinks before version 0.99.20~pre.151+dfsg-1 and are now
real directories. (Closes: #1036096)
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