[Andreas Beckmann] > A test with piuparts revealed that your package misses the copyright > file after an upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, which is a violation of > Policy 12.5 :
Thanks - yeah, looks like a dpkg bug: during the upgrade, the old /usr/share/doc/$pkg directory disappears, but dpkg forgets to remove it before unpacking the new package, where /usr/share/doc/$pkg is a symlink; therefore it fails to add the symlink. Of course dpkg should be careful when replacing symlinks with directories, because it's possible for a local admin to replace a directory with a symlink for filesystem layout reasons. But this is the opposite case, and dpkg certainly has enough information to know it is safe. I'm guessing this dpkg bug hits a lot more packages than just mine. Do you know if it is expected to be fixed soon, or do I need to work around it? Thanks, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
