Your message dated Thu, 02 Aug 2018 14:49:04 +0000
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and subject line Bug#905201: fixed in geda-gaf 1:1.8.2-9
has caused the Debian Bug report #905201,
regarding libgeda-dev,geda-doc,geda: unhandled symlink to directory conversion:
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
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Package: libgeda-dev,geda-doc,geda
Version: 1:1.8.2-8
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
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:
stretch -> buster
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/#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/#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.
Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control.
See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details.
>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
1m21.2s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-dev/HACKING (libgeda-dev) !=
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-common/HACKING (?)
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-dev -> libgeda-common
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-dev/changelog.Debian.gz (libgeda-dev) !=
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-common/changelog.Debian.gz (libgeda-common)
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-dev -> libgeda-common
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-dev/changelog.gz (libgeda-dev) !=
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-common/changelog.gz (libgeda-common)
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-dev -> libgeda-common
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-dev/copyright (libgeda-dev) !=
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-common/copyright (libgeda-common)
/usr/share/doc/libgeda-dev -> libgeda-common
0m52.4s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink:
/usr/share/doc/geda/AUTHORS (geda-doc) != /usr/share/doc/geda-doc/AUTHORS (?)
/usr/share/doc/geda -> geda-doc
/usr/share/doc/geda/NEWS.gz (geda-doc) != /usr/share/doc/geda-doc/NEWS.gz (?)
/usr/share/doc/geda -> geda-doc
cheers,
Andreas
libgeda-dev_1:1.8.2-8.log.gz
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: geda-gaf
Source-Version: 1:1.8.2-9
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
geda-gaf, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) <[email protected]> (supplier
of updated geda-gaf package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 16:13:28 +0200
Source: geda-gaf
Binary: geda libgeda42 libgeda-dev libgeda-common geda-symbols geda-gschem
geda-gattrib geda-gnetlist geda-gsymcheck geda-utils geda-examples geda-doc
Architecture: source
Version: 1:1.8.2-9
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Electronics Team
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
<[email protected]>
Description:
geda - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (metapackage)
geda-doc - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (documentation)
geda-examples - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (example designs)
geda-gattrib - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (attribute editor)
geda-gnetlist - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (netlister)
geda-gschem - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (schematic editor)
geda-gsymcheck - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (symbol checker)
geda-symbols - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (symbols library)
geda-utils - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (utilities)
libgeda-common - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (data files)
libgeda-dev - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (development files)
libgeda42 - GPL EDA -- Electronics design software (library files)
Closes: 904949 905201
Changes:
geda-gaf (1:1.8.2-9) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Set doc-main-package to geda-docs (Closes: #904949)
* Add maintainer scripts to convert libgeda-dev doc dir from symlink to a
real dir (Closes: #905201)
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