user release.debian....@packages.debian.org usertag 608793 squeeze-can-defer tag 608793 squeeze-ignore kthxbye
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 15:10:25 -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 03:31:13PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > > FYI, dpkg should not change symlinks to directories or vice versa. > > Policy 6.6(4) documents this. In my experience, this works as > > documented, but dpkg does have bugs of course. > > zoneminder does appear to behave this way. > > i just confirmed that if the /usr/share/zoneminder/events directory is already > present before installing zoneminder, it doesn't get converted to a symlink. > so > this should make upgrades from source-based installs reasonably safe. > > however, if an admin manually replaces /usr/share/zoneminder/events with a > symlink, on installing or upgrading the zoneminder package, the symlink will > get updated to point to the location defined in the package. which is not, as > far as i can tell, a policy violation (otherwise packages would never be able > to update symlinks). obviously it will trigger issues when zmaudit kicks in. > > so the problem is only triggered when symlinks don't match what the package > expects. > Doesn't sound RC then. I'm leaving the severity as-is though and will leave it to the maintainer or somebody who knows zoneminder to deal with that, but I'm tagging this bug as not a release blocker for squeeze. Cheers, Julien
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