On 2012-09-30 22:49, David Prévot wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > Le 30/09/2012 15:44, Andreas Beckmann a écrit : > >> thanks for taking care to fix the missing-copyright-file bugs >> discovered by piuparts. > > Thanks for spotting them (the usual fix was pretty easy, so I allowed > myself for some MBFixing ;). > >> There is another one you might want to look into: #681147, >> src:sendmail, this affects quite some packages depending on sendmail | >> mta-virtual-package. There is a patch from Tobias Hansen, and he says >> the symlink stuff must be undone because all the packages are >> individually installable and don't have a strict dependency on one >> package that could ship the doc dir. > > The patch is “a bit” more intrusive, did you also perform some test with > the patched version (both on upgrade from stable and from the current > 8.14.4-2.1)? I've noticed some undesired behavior when trying to do > clever stuff in preinst (see e.g. #687657 and the two previous “fixes”).
I didn't look at the patch so far. piuparts is busy keeping the RC bug count up :-) >> there is much more messed up. > > Yay, thus the invasive patch ;). > >> It might be a nightmare to properly clean this up on updates. > > Agreed, thus the asking for test of the proposed fixed. Any reason not OK, I'll try to do some tests. But I see, there is a different RC bug, too ... > to discuss this directly on #681147, with Tobias CC eventually? Feel > free to quote all of part of this message in a public place. > > Regards > > David Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
