remaining files after an upgrade

2011-08-07 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
hello I tested one of my package (spyder) with piuparts. The install upgrade and purge test failed with remaing files 13m27.1s INFO: Warning: Package purging left files on system: /usr/share/pyshared/spyderlib owned by: python-spyderlib /usr/share/pyshared/spyderlib/doc not owned

Re: remaining files after an upgrade

2011-08-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 07 Aug 2011, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: I tested one of my package (spyder) with piuparts. The install upgrade and purge test failed with remaing files Can you provide the old and new version of the package? I think you have a symlink somewhere in your package, and while you

Re: remaining files after an upgrade

2011-08-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 07 Aug 2011, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: I think you have a symlink somewhere in your package, and while you expected it to be replaced by a directory on upgrade, this did not happen. And thus the old files were kept... because the place where they have been moved to doesn't

RE : remaining files after an upgrade

2011-08-07 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
Can you provide the old and new version of the package? here they are : http://people.debian.org/~picca/spyder/ I think you have a symlink somewhere in your package, and while you expected it to be replaced by a directory on upgrade, this did not happen. And thus the old files were kept...

RE : remaining files after an upgrade

2011-08-07 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
Thanks, I will do this in the preinst I think that I am not the first one affected by that sort of problem. Is there a FAQ for package transition usual mistakes ? like this one. thanks Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: remaining files after an upgrade

2011-08-07 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 07 Aug 2011, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: Thanks, I will do this in the preinst I think that I am not the first one affected by that sort of problem. Is there a FAQ for package transition usual mistakes ? like this one. No, but it's documented in the policy IIRC. Cheers, --