Bug#773059: ogre-doc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
Package: ogre-doc Version: 1.7.4+dfsg1-7 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Control: affects -1 + ogre-doc-nonfree 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: lenny (ogre-doc-nonfree) - squeeze - wheezy - jessie 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#s-copyrightfile 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#s-unpackphase It is recommended to use the dpkg-maintscript-helper commands 'dir_to_symlink' and 'symlink_to_dir' (available since dpkg 1.17.2) to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.mainstscript. See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details. Since ogre-doc seems to have reintegrated the content from ogre-doc-nonfree after lenny, it is also missing Breaks+Replaces: ogre-doc-nonfree From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...): 2m54.6s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: /usr/share/doc/ogre-doc/api/html (ogre-doc) != /usr/share/doc/ogre-doc-nonfree/api/html (ogre-doc-nonfree) /usr/share/doc/ogre-doc/api/html/GLX_2OgreConfigDialogImp_8h.html (ogre-doc) != /usr/share/doc/ogre-doc-nonfree/api/html/GLX_2OgreConfigDialogImp_8h.html (ogre-doc-nonfree) /usr/share/doc/ogre-doc/api/html/GLX_2OgreConfigDialogImp_8h_source.html (ogre-doc) != /usr/share/doc/ogre-doc-nonfree/api/html/GLX_2OgreConfigDialogImp_8h_source.html (?) /usr/share/doc/ogre-doc/api/html/GLX_2OgreErrorDialogImp_8h.html (ogre-doc) != /usr/share/doc/ogre-doc-nonfree/api/html/GLX_2OgreErrorDialogImp_8h.html (ogre-doc-nonfree) cheers, Andreas ogre-doc-nonfree_None.log.gz Description: application/gzip
Bug#773059: ogre-doc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
2014-12-13 20:08 GMT+00:00 Andreas Beckmann a...@debian.org: Package: ogre-doc Version: 1.7.4+dfsg1-7 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Control: affects -1 + ogre-doc-nonfree 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: lenny (ogre-doc-nonfree) - squeeze - wheezy - jessie Hi Andreas, ogre-doc-nonfree was removed from unstable in mid 2010 due to ROM; superceded by ogre 1.6.4.dfsg1-1, and 1.6.4.dfsg1-1 was uploaded in October 2009, and was the version shipped with squeeze (oldstable, at this moment), released in Feb 2011. ogre-doc-nonfree did not even ship in squeeze. On the other hand, ogre-doc is not going to be released in Jessie (removed from testing and unstable), so this would be only fixable with an upload to the next point release for wheezy. Lenny was first released in Feb 2009, last point release and security updates discontinued happened in Feb/March 2012. https://packages.qa.debian.org/o/ogre-doc-nonfree/news/20100610T185814Z.html https://packages.qa.debian.org/o/ogre/news/20091001T152940Z.html http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/ I don't know if I understand this correctly, but it seems that when this breakage did happen was in the upgrade lenny-squeeze; and support for both of these distributions is discontinued already, right? Cheers. -- Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo manuel.montez...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
