Your message dated Tue, 30 Mar 2021 09:33:24 +0000 with message-id <e1lrakw-000fox...@fasolo.debian.org> and subject line Bug#985282: fixed in dnsmasq 2.84-1.1 has caused the Debian Bug report #985282, regarding dnsmasq: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: dnsmasq Version: 2.84-1 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: buster -> bullseye 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/ch-docs.html#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/ch-maintainerscripts.html#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. See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details. >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): 0m36.5s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq/changelog.Debian.gz (dnsmasq) != /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/changelog.Debian.gz (dnsmasq-base) /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq -> dnsmasq-base /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq/copyright (dnsmasq) != /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq-base/copyright (dnsmasq-base) /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq -> dnsmasq-base cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: dnsmasq Source-Version: 2.84-1.1 Done: Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of dnsmasq, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 985...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> (supplier of updated dnsmasq package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2021 10:55:07 +0200 Source: dnsmasq Architecture: source Version: 2.84-1.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Simon Kelley <si...@thekelleys.org.uk> Changed-By: Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> Closes: 985282 Changes: dnsmasq (2.84-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload. * Fix symlink to directory conversion for /usr/share/doc/dnsmasq. This is achieved by directly calling dpkg-maintscript-helper in the preinst, postinst, and postrm scripts, since the package does not use debhelper. (Closes: #985282) Checksums-Sha1: 11f3bcce88f372cd14e854ef7d2f971bf0877cef 2175 dnsmasq_2.84-1.1.dsc 657e630d7545d87a82a4354ced699fc2ebce42d7 26265 dnsmasq_2.84-1.1.diff.gz cae552d34e8d70b661149dbeb01766b2a157506f 7414 dnsmasq_2.84-1.1_amd64.buildinfo Checksums-Sha256: 7cdbe52bb7f756203e5de9c28823652fbc17f91a505520a23b44b9e9f9469fec 2175 dnsmasq_2.84-1.1.dsc 028dfe0029798d92d3eeb9f0aba0da0793170163650175fff92423be9bc72315 26265 dnsmasq_2.84-1.1.diff.gz 173a489b88157df60099379c404dd6df41486c4516286994a3d5d22905a62d6e 7414 dnsmasq_2.84-1.1_amd64.buildinfo Files: 8f0e0a3231f3fb4eb57e06f8f4652979 2175 net optional dnsmasq_2.84-1.1.dsc ef0891e42f30b68b3443e364a62265c1 26265 net optional dnsmasq_2.84-1.1.diff.gz 01bf332ceb5bd053f32cdbc00788cb00 7414 net optional dnsmasq_2.84-1.1_amd64.buildinfo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEU5UdlScuDFuCvoxKLOzpNQ7OvkoFAmBgRkoACgkQLOzpNQ7O vkq6LA/9EAUhAxXfy0qinB5B10SWamxAD/Hwq58NUYVowvwSw75PtYn7RrkYxMAv Zl74Xo7UqEO0UFB+IQVRCn4f1o+6NjGcDd93724V2/IV/KeBWTEGVr8MI7niUdjF 0mmaQHWJndxa9BFpdOTwDz2M+YUsre02QTJXB8dzb1+52ZQfWZ5t6CxMyx/HIt1C cQZsxDbPQpKpKcj5dx3eCkIBu7kS8KjTFDlevfcClw6G8PMWepCeg8VMYa9k61JC oRpkyPAoj1W9cPiZsew0tvcOlbmEVWsfkDfA/3wBsTeaqvYRcidS+/vXMf5Zu50j 9Xdat84Ca3RkW9LHFNrvKGZRXv5tXOrCJxeP2kCT5Jv8HD96Pg2B9i0Ok95WZitQ x7jufUwDMG5XpjmZoihQGYzVRaphGrsaKrx3reH3H+e1nAAi5lyBf0paLvSJqofN kJ/CX105jEDgSEUzexejVzcZJcw0wB0ny1gPPCZyJXc5SNrPVZH+4Bktqc2K9ejO Z68TABKYLZOp6wWrE6JICyuARrFV/fBE4s9qRdNpelh5ZYBhv2/IxCpvKxB0hman uw3TqGSfDnupjnuAzSYM6+fKhLsFZumb0rbt16QgT7D8cMBdHqpxTWY3guGj7sMk AkdBxbvQx46ybzeOYNqaJIAU9G4EY4wSKAAfGw4N8TXG2J6In7k= =XS8S -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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