Control: severity -1 serious Control: clone -1 -2 Control: reassign -1 src:tiff Control: retitle -1 tiff: Incorrect /usr/share/doc symlink to doc transition Control: found -1 3.8.2-7 Control: reassign -2 src:e2fsprogs Control: retitle -2 e2fsprogs: Unhandled /usr/share/doc symlink to doc transition Control: found -2 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-1
[ Sven, thanks for the investigation on e2fsck-static! ] Please see the bug log for further details and logs, it's a split of a conglomerate bug, but the gist of it (should) be quoted below. I've still set the severity to serious, even if the issue is caused by very old packages, because as long as this is not handled during an upgrade of a release cycle, then the problem is bound to possibly be carried over from release to release. On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 20:40:20 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2013-01-23 12:35 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-01-23 at 03:40:34 +0100, Uwe Storbeck wrote: > > > Package: dpkg > > > Version: 1.16.9 > > > Severity: grave > > > Justification: causes non-serious data loss > > > > I doubt this is a problem in dpkg, otherwise this should have shown > > up early on. From the looks of it, it seems specific problems in those > > packages you list, probably from fragile /use/share/doc/ symlink > > transition handling, and symlinks remaining on the system from packages > > older than the ones in squeeze. > > That seems to be correct. > > > It seems the only involved packages are e2fsck-static, e2fsprogs, > > libtiff-tools, libtiff4 and libtiffxx0c2. > > > > > grappa:~# md5sum /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright > > > 726570c997e520841dbf8f7611b173ae /usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright > > > > > > grappa:~# grep copyright /var/lib/dpkg/info/e2fsprogs.md5sums > > > 51a47eee51e75de66777fc781af2f063 usr/share/doc/e2fsprogs/copyright > > > > I'll check these out later today. > > The e2fsck-static package switched from a symlink to a directory in > /usr/share/doc with version 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-1, but > apparently never included a maintainer script to remove the symlink. > Not sure if it is worth fixing that three Debian releases later. > > > > grappa:~# debsums --changed > > > /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/README > > > /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/TODO > > > /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.Debian.gz > > > /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools/changelog.gz > > > > This one seems clearish, a previous version of libtiff-tools used to > > symlink /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools to /usr/share/doc/libtiff4. Also > > the maintainer script removes the /usr/share/doc/libtiff-tools on > > upgrade if it's a directory and not symlink, which makes those > > disappear only on upgrade not on a clean installation. > > This certainly needs to be fixed. Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
