Control: tag -1 + patch On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 23:59:05 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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. > 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.maintscript. > See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details. Here's a patch using dpkg-maintscript-helper to handle the symlink_to_dir transition. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: hons: molly's got a rider
diff -Nru libgsm-1.0.18/debian/changelog libgsm-1.0.18/debian/changelog --- libgsm-1.0.18/debian/changelog 2019-01-01 00:28:12.000000000 +0100 +++ libgsm-1.0.18/debian/changelog 2019-03-17 16:34:15.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +libgsm (1.0.18-1.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Fix "unhandled symlink to directory conversion: + /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE": + add libgsm1-dev.maintscript for the symlink_to_dir transition. + (Closes: #919438) + + -- gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> Sun, 17 Mar 2019 16:34:15 +0100 + libgsm (1.0.18-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream version diff -Nru libgsm-1.0.18/debian/libgsm1-dev.maintscript libgsm-1.0.18/debian/libgsm1-dev.maintscript --- libgsm-1.0.18/debian/libgsm1-dev.maintscript 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ libgsm-1.0.18/debian/libgsm1-dev.maintscript 2019-03-17 16:34:15.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +symlink_to_dir /usr/share/doc/libgsm1-dev libgsm1 1.0.18-1.1~
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