On Tuesday 29 June 2010 17:00:31 you wrote: > The package diverts three files, one is shipped, one is > not shipped and the third (a symlink) is created via dpkg triggers.
And that's the key to the problem. > http://stxxl.ae.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/tmp/ea1deb9d-456a-4b51-9a0f-49a13354a00 > 9/libgl1-nvidia-glx_195.36.31-1~_amd64.deb preinst diverts the following files: /usr/lib/$file /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2 /usr/lib/libGL.so Since lintian doesn't know what $file actually means, it replaces it with a wildcard (represented by '*' in the output.) So, when it goes and looks for a file shipped by the package matching /usr/lib/* it does find some (any file in /usr/lib counts as a valid match [1].) There's no bug in lintian then. By the way, unless I'm missing something, your preinst won't work. It is only possible to divert a file once. [1] Including directories, I think; and that's another bug as dpkg-divert doesn't support directories. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
