On 2013-01-23 12:35 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 03:40:34 +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote:
>> Package: dpkg
>> Version: 1.16.9
>> Severity: grave
>> Justification: causes non-serious data loss
>
> I doubt this is a problem in dpkg, otherwise this should have shown
> up early on. From the looks of it, it seems specific problems in those
> packages you list, probably from fragile /use/share/doc/ symlink
> transition handling, and symlinks remaining on the system from packages
> older than the ones in squeeze.
That seems to be correct.
> It seems the only involved packages are e2fsck-static, e2fsprogs,
> libtiff-tools, libtiff4 and libtiffxx0c2.
>
>> grappa:~# md5sum /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright
>> 726570c997e520841dbf8f7611b173ae /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright
>>
>> grappa:~# grep copyright /var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fsprogs.md5sums
>> 51a47eee51e75de66777fc781af2f063 usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright
>
> I'll check these out later today.
The e2fsck-static package switched from a symlink to a directory in
/usr/share/doc with version 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-1, but
apparently never included a maintainer script to remove the symlink.
Not sure if it is worth fixing that three Debian releases later.
>> grappa:~# debsums --changed
>> /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/README
>> /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/TODO
>> /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.Debian.gz
>> /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.gz
>
> This one seems clearish, a previous version of libtiff-tools used to
> symlink /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools to /usr/share/doc/libtiff4. Also
> the maintainer script removes the /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools on
> upgrade if it's a directory and not symlink, which makes those
> disappear only on upgrade not on a clean installation.
This certainly needs to be fixed.
Cheers,
Sven
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