Package: libgc-dev Version: 1:7.1-9 Severity: serious User: [email protected] Usertags: piuparts
Hi,
during an upgrade test with piuparts I noticed your package installs
files over an existing symlink, overwriting files from another package
in a way that is not detected by dpkg:
0m42.9s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink:
/usr/share/doc/libgc-dev/changelog.Debian.gz !=
/usr/share/doc/libgc1c2/changelog.Debian.gz (libgc-dev)
/usr/share/doc/libgc-dev/changelog.gz != /usr/share/doc/libgc1c2/changelog.gz
(libgc-dev)
/usr/share/doc/libgc-dev/copyright != /usr/share/doc/libgc1c2/copyright
(libgc-dev)
Looks like /usr/share/doc/libgc-dev was a symlink in squeeze and is a
directory in wheezy. Note that dpkg intentionally does not replace
directories with symlinks and vice versa.
libgc-dev.preinst should probably do something like
test ! -L /usr/share/doc/libgc-dev || rm /usr/share/doc/libgc-dev
Please clean this up in wheezy.
Cheers,
Andreas
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