Your message dated Sun, 18 Jan 2015 11:04:30 +0000
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and subject line Bug#775350: fixed in util-linux 2.25.2-4.1
has caused the Debian Bug report #775350,
regarding libblkid-dev: unhandled symlink to directory conversion:
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
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Package: libblkid-dev
Version: 2.25.2-4
Severity: serious
User: [email protected]
Usertags: piuparts
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 -> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie
The bug dates back to the lenny->squeeze upgrade cycle. The lenny version
of the package shipped
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-dev -> libblkid1
while in squeeze this was replaced by a directory, but the symlink
got never transitioned, so the problem persists in long grown
installations until today.
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 1.17.14)
to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.mainstscript.
Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control.
See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details.
>From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...):
5m26.4s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-dev/changelog.Debian.gz (libblkid-dev:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libblkid1/changelog.Debian.gz (libblkid1:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-dev -> libblkid1
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-dev/changelog.gz (libblkid-dev:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libblkid1/changelog.gz (libblkid1:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-dev -> libblkid1
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-dev/copyright (libblkid-dev:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libblkid1/copyright (libblkid1:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-dev -> libblkid1
5m33.5s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared:
/usr/share/doc/libblkid1/changelog.Debian.gz owned by: libblkid1:amd64
/usr/share/doc/libblkid1/changelog.gz owned by: libblkid1:amd64
/usr/share/doc/libblkid1/copyright owned by: libblkid1:amd64
It's sufficient to fix this in jessie, no need to backport the fix
to wheezy (which does not have dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir).
cheers,
Andreas
libblkid-dev_2.25.2-4.log.gz
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: util-linux
Source-Version: 2.25.2-4.1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
util-linux, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jonathan Wiltshire <[email protected]> (supplier of updated util-linux package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 16:17:40 +0000
Source: util-linux
Binary: util-linux util-linux-locales mount bsdutils fdisk-udeb cfdisk-udeb
libblkid1 libblkid1-udeb libblkid-dev libmount1 libmount-dev libsmartcols1
libsmartcols1-udeb libsmartcols-dev libuuid1 uuid-runtime libuuid1-udeb
uuid-dev util-linux-udeb
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 2.25.2-4.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian util-linux Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Jonathan Wiltshire <[email protected]>
Description:
bsdutils - basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
cfdisk-udeb - Manually partition a hard drive (cfdisk) (udeb)
fdisk-udeb - Manually partition a hard drive (fdisk) (udeb)
libblkid-dev - block device id library - headers and static libraries
libblkid1 - block device id library
libblkid1-udeb - stripped down block device id library, for debian-installer
(udeb)
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libmount1 - device mounting library
libsmartcols-dev - smart column output alignment library - headers and static
librar
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libsmartcols1-udeb - stripped down smart column output aligment library, for
debian-in (udeb)
libuuid1 - Universally Unique ID library
libuuid1-udeb - stripped down universally unique id library, for
debian-installer (udeb)
mount - Tools for mounting and manipulating filesystems
util-linux - Miscellaneous system utilities
util-linux-locales - Locales files for util-linux
util-linux-udeb - stripped down miscellaneous system utilities, for
debian-installe (udeb)
uuid-dev - universally unique id library - headers and static libraries
uuid-runtime - runtime components for the Universally Unique ID library
Closes: 775350
Changes:
util-linux (2.25.2-4.1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Fix unhandled symlink_to_dir conversion for
/usr/share/doc/libblkid-dev (Closes: #775350)
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