Le 15/03/2021 à 13:49, Yadd a écrit : > Le 15/03/2021 à 13:30, Andreas Beckmann a écrit : >> Package: chai >> Version: 4.2.0+ds+~4.2.14-3 >> 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. >> >> This was observed on the following upgrade paths: >> >> buster -> bullseye >> >> 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...): >> >> 0m40.7s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: >> /usr/share/doc/chai/History.md.gz (chai) != >> /usr/share/doc/libjs-chai/History.md.gz (libjs-chai) >> /usr/share/doc/chai -> libjs-chai >> /usr/share/doc/chai/changelog.Debian.gz (chai) != >> /usr/share/doc/libjs-chai/changelog.Debian.gz (libjs-chai) >> /usr/share/doc/chai -> libjs-chai >> /usr/share/doc/chai/changelog.gz (chai) != >> /usr/share/doc/libjs-chai/changelog.gz (libjs-chai) >> /usr/share/doc/chai -> libjs-chai >> /usr/share/doc/chai/copyright (chai) != >> /usr/share/doc/libjs-chai/copyright (libjs-chai) >> /usr/share/doc/chai -> libjs-chai > > Hi, > > there is already a maintscript for this: > > $ cat debian/chai.maintscript > dir_to_symlink /usr/share/doc/chai libjs-chai 4.2.0+ds-2~ > > What is wrong here ?
Found: s/dir_to_symlink/symlink_to_dir/ :-(
