On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 01:29:07PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > libgtest-dev contains in 1.8.0-1 a symlink to the new on-disk location. > That works for new installs, but doesn't on upgrades ??? a user ends up > with an empty /usr/src/gtest in that case. You need to work with > maintainerscripts here, see "man dpkg-maintscript-helper" and especially > the section about dir_to_symlink for details on how and why.
I agree that upgrades should work and regret not testing that case. Thank you very much for a very precise pointer to the fix! Will upload very soon. > You should also update your README.Debian and the descriptions with the > new paths and the transitional package as [...] Thanks. Updated README.Debian. Not sure what you mean about the descriptions -- there is nothing in the control file about the paths. (?) > btw: Upstream seems to have retired their remark on compiling googletest > on your own as I can't find it any longer on their website and e.g. in > the RPM/BSD worlds you get a binary only. Hmm. The code still has a lot of #if/#ifdef code in it including at least one "#ifdef NDEBUG". I haven't done an in-depth look, but I'd think the advice about not distributing a compiled version would still hold. Best, -Steve
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