On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:35:37 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > during an upgrade test with piuparts I noticed your package installs > files over an existing symlink, overwriting files from another package > in a way that is not detected by dpkg: > > 0m44.0s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink: > /etc/lazarus/environmentoptions.xml != > /etc/lazarus-0.9.30.4/environmentoptions.xml (lcl-utils) > /etc/lazarus/helpoptions.xml != /etc/lazarus-0.9.30.4/helpoptions.xml > (lcl-utils) > > Looks like /etc/lazarus was a symlink in squeeze and is a > directory in wheezy. Note that dpkg intentionally does not replace > directories with symlinks and vice versa.
I don't think it was a symlink in squezze after comparing the
packages; my suspect at the moment is update-alternatives in
debian/lcl-utils.postinst.in.
> This creates a serious mess with the conffiles in /etc ...
>
> There are also some obsolete conffiles (could be false positives due to
> this symlinkmess), look at dpkg-maintscript-helper for easy cleanup:
>
> OBSOLETE CONFFILE /etc/lazarus/helpoptions.xml REGISTERED BY lcl-utils
> (MODIFIED)
> OBSOLETE CONFFILE /etc/lazarus/environmentoptions.xml REGISTERED BY
> lcl-utils (MODIFIED)
They're modified in debian/rules ("fpcsubst ...") in
etc/lazarus-0.9.30.4. So i guess the "obsolete" part comes from the
symlink problem, but the modification might remain in any case.
> and there are files left on the system after purge:
>
> 0m46.6s INFO: Warning: Package purging left files on system:
> /etc/lazarus.bak/ not owned
> /etc/lazarus.bak/environmentoptions.xml not owned
> /etc/lazarus.bak/helpoptions.xml not owned
Yup, debian/lcl-utils.postinst.in + debian/lcl-utils.templates.in.
> I didn't look at the maintainer scripts or the package to analyze what's
> going on (or what was intended to happen).
I only came up with these rough ideas.
(Building the package is Not Really Funny™.)
Cheers,
gregor
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