Control: severity -1 wishlist On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:34:50 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote: > Control: found -1 20200710-8 > > On 16/03/2021 13.51, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > * preinst: Properly deal with other packages installing files under > > /usr/share/mk (Closes: #985347) > > That does not work. > > Now we have > > 1m59.2s ERROR: installs objects over existing directory symlinks: > /usr/share/mk/bps.autoconf.mk (bsdowl) != > /usr/share/bmake/mk-bmake/bps.autoconf.mk (?) > /usr/share/mk -> bmake/mk-bmake > /usr/share/mk/bps.clean.mk (bsdowl) != > /usr/share/bmake/mk-bmake/bps.clean.mk (?) > /usr/share/mk -> bmake/mk-bmake > /usr/share/mk/bps.credentials.mk (bsdowl) != > /usr/share/bmake/mk-bmake/bps.credentials.mk (?) > /usr/share/mk -> bmake/mk-bmake > /usr/share/mk/bps.files.mk (bsdowl) != > /usr/share/bmake/mk-bmake/bps.files.mk (?) > /usr/share/mk -> bmake/mk-bmake > /usr/share/mk/bps.init.mk (bsdowl) != > /usr/share/bmake/mk-bmake/bps.init.mk (?) > /usr/share/mk -> bmake/mk-bmake > ... > > The Conflicts: bsdowl (<< 2.2.2-1.2) would have done its job ... > you don't want to be co-installable with packages shipping stuff in > /usr/share/mk
I don’t see why this is wrong and should not be allowed; I disagree with piuparts on this, and I don’t think it’s a bug worth fixing. -- Cheers, Andrej
