Your message dated Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:48:11 +0000
with message-id <e1gpalz-00050y...@fasolo.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#911593: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #886948,
regarding ekiga-plugin-evolution: unhandled symlink to directory conversion:
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
to be marked as done.
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Package: ekiga-plugin-evolution
Version: 4.0.1-9
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Hi,
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.
This was observed on the following upgrade paths:
stretch -> sid
For /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE this may not be problematic as long as both
packages are installed, ship byte-for-byte identical files and are
upgraded in lockstep. But once one of the involved packages gets
removed, the other one will lose its documentation files, too,
including the copyright file, which is a violation of Policy 12.5:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#copyright-information
For other overwritten locations anything interesting may happen.
Note that dpkg intentionally does not replace directories with symlinks
and vice versa, you need the maintainer scripts to do this.
See in particular the end of point 4 in
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#details-of-unpack-phase-of-installation-or-upgrade
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.
Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control.
See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details.
>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
1m25.7s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/ekiga-plugin-evolution/changelog.Debian.gz
(ekiga-plugin-evolution) != /usr/share/doc/ekiga/changelog.Debian.gz (ekiga)
/usr/share/doc/ekiga-plugin-evolution -> ekiga
/usr/share/doc/ekiga-plugin-evolution/changelog.gz (ekiga-plugin-evolution)
!= /usr/share/doc/ekiga/changelog.gz (ekiga)
/usr/share/doc/ekiga-plugin-evolution -> ekiga
/usr/share/doc/ekiga-plugin-evolution/copyright (ekiga-plugin-evolution) !=
/usr/share/doc/ekiga/copyright (ekiga)
/usr/share/doc/ekiga-plugin-evolution -> ekiga
cheers,
Andreas
ekiga-plugin-evolution_4.0.1-9.log.gz
Description: application/gzip
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 4.0.1-9+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package ekiga has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/911593
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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