Package: dpkg Version: 1.17.4 Severity: serious Hi,
consider the following packages shipping a few files: foo 1.0 /usr/foo/foo.dat foobar 2.0 /usr/foobar/foo.dat foo 2.0 (Depends: foobar) /usr/foo -> foobar foo 2.0 uses dpkg-maintscript-helper dir_to_symlink to properly perform the conversion. After the following sequence, /usr/foobar/foo.dat is missing: install foo 1.0 install foobar 2.0 install foo 2.0 I think the following is happen during the installation of foo 2.0: * the preinst moves /usr/foo/ aside * the package gets unpacked, creating /usr/foo -> foobar * the obsolete files from foo 1.0 that are no longer in foo 2.0 get deleted, this finds /usr/foo/foo.dat which exists, but is actually /usr/foobar/foo.dat, but gets deleted anyway. Observed while debugging the piuparts failures of python-babel on upgrades from jessie to sid. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
