Control: reopen -1 On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 03:09:02AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > It has been closed by Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]> > (reply to Osamu Aoki <[email protected]>).
I fear this is not fixed. The mmdebstrap-based reproducer clearly shows that upgrading from bookworm to sid (2.126) still looses files. As a result, I am reopening the bug report. You opted for a solution that differs from all three solutions that I suggested. You use dpkg-maintscript-helper to convert the directory in the debian-reference-$LANG packages. Note that man dpkg-maintscript-helper says: | the preinst checks if the directory exists, does not contain ..., | pathnames owned by other packages, or ..., if not then it's left in | place, ... As a result, what practically happens is that the dir_to_symlink conversion is not carried out when performed by dpkg-maintscript-helper for debian-reference-$LANG as debian-reference-common may still install files below. Helmut
