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and subject line Bug#788160: fixed in elinks 0.12~pre6-12
has caused the Debian Bug report #788160,
regarding elinks: unhandled symlink to directory conversion:
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
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Package: elinks
Version: 0.12~pre6-7
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:
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...):
0m32.0s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/elinks/changelog.Debian.gz (elinks) !=
/usr/share/doc/elinks-data/changelog.Debian.gz (elinks-data)
/usr/share/doc/elinks -> elinks-data
/usr/share/doc/elinks/changelog.gz (elinks) !=
/usr/share/doc/elinks-data/changelog.gz (elinks-data)
/usr/share/doc/elinks -> elinks-data
/usr/share/doc/elinks/copyright (elinks) !=
/usr/share/doc/elinks-data/copyright (elinks-data)
/usr/share/doc/elinks -> elinks-data
/usr/share/doc/elinks/examples (elinks) !=
/usr/share/doc/elinks-data/examples (elinks-data)
/usr/share/doc/elinks -> elinks-data
/usr/share/doc/elinks/examples/elinks.config (elinks) !=
/usr/share/doc/elinks-data/examples/elinks.config (?)
/usr/share/doc/elinks -> elinks-data
cheers,
Andreas
elinks_0.12~pre6-7.log.gz
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: elinks
Source-Version: 0.12~pre6-12
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
elinks, 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.
Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]> (supplier of updated elinks package)
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 21:17:47 +0200
Source: elinks
Binary: elinks elinks-data elinks-doc
Architecture: source all amd64
Version: 0.12~pre6-12
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Moritz Muehlenhoff <[email protected]>
Description:
elinks - advanced text-mode WWW browser
elinks-data - advanced text-mode WWW browser - data files
elinks-doc - advanced text-mode WWW browser - documentation
Closes: 788160
Changes:
elinks (0.12~pre6-12) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Fix maint script (Closes: #788160)
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