Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.26 Severity: normal dh_installudev installs a #DEBHELPER# fragment that makes a symlink from /etc/udev/package.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/package.rules, but only if the installation is brand new (ie. [ -z "$2" ]). This is, AFAICS, because an admin should be free to rm this symlink without worrying that it will be reintroduced on the next upgrade.
However, if a package doesn't include this .rules file from the very start, the symlink won't be created: version 1 will install as usual, and when the .rules file is installed in an upgrade to version 2, $2 is of course not empty (it's "1"), and the symlink is never created. dh_installudev should probably take a parameter saying what version the .rules files were introduced in, and check $2 against that with dpkg --compare-versions. I can see there's problems here if multiple independent files are introduced at different times by the same package, but I guess that's a narrow enough use case that it won't be a problem in practice? -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.3 Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060117-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils [fileutils 5.94-1 The GNU core utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.13.17 package building tools for Debian ii file 4.17-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii fileutils 5.94-1 The GNU file management utilities ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.8-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 1.0 manage translated Debconf template debhelper recommends no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
