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Subject: Re: [Pkg-lirc-maint] Bug#774867: lirc-x: unhandled symlink to
directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
Date: Friday 09 January 2015
From: "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" <s....@gmx.de>
To: 774...@bugs.debian.org
Hi
On Thursday 08 January 2015, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: lirc-x
> Version: 0.9.0~pre1-1.1
> Severity: serious
> User: debian...@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
[...]
> This was observed on the following upgrade paths:
>
> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie
This affects only the <=squeeze --> wheezy upgrade path. Considering
that upgrades skipping a stable release aren't formally supported and
generally don't work, it does not affect >=jessie anymore, even though
both wheezy and jessie share the same version of lirc.
With squeeze being EOL for over half a year by now (disregarding the
more server centric, rather inofficial LTS efforts) and lirc being a
predominantly desktop/ multimedia centric package, with no actual user
report about this particular issue so far, I'd tend not to touch this
problem for wheezy anymore - and jessie isn't affected either way.
> 2m28.1s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
> /usr/share/doc/lirc-x/NEWS.Debian.gz (lirc-x) !=
> /usr/share/doc/lirc/NEWS.Debian.gz (lirc)
> /usr/share/doc/lirc-x -> lirc
> /usr/share/doc/lirc-x/changelog.Debian.gz (lirc-x) !=
> /usr/share/doc/lirc/changelog.Debian.gz (lirc)
> /usr/share/doc/lirc-x -> lirc
> /usr/share/doc/lirc-x/copyright (lirc-x) != /usr/share/doc/lirc/copyright
> (lirc)
> /usr/share/doc/lirc-x -> lirc
While the bug itself is definately serious/ RC for wheezy, I'd tend to
consider this problem wontfix for wheezy at this stage[1] and not-a-bug
for jessie - can you agree with this evaluation?
Regards
Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
[1] it does affect dist-upgrades from squeeze to wheezy
it does not affect fresh installations of wheezy
it does not affect dist-upgrades from wheezy to jessie
it does not affect fresh installations of jessie
it won't affect dist-upgrading from jessie upwards to stretch+
as such, I don't think a bugfix for this would meet the unblock
criteria for jessie at this point of the freeze, but with wheezy
and jessie sharing the same version of lirc, any change for wheezy
would also require an update for jessie.
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