Gunnar, "quite often" sounds worrysome -- this smells like a dpkg bug then? Did you see more duplicates of this?
This is an utterly complex and probably brittle workaround. If we need such a workaround, then the pre*inst* should call "dpkg -L <pkgname>" (this needs to be generated by debian/rules), iterate over all entries, and remove any which are a symlink. If it's a dpkg bug it would really be better to fix it there (needs a reproducer then), if it's really a hardware bug then no amount of software workarounds will help against those :/. But if you see many duplicates, it's more likely a dpkg bug. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Documentation Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-docs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1364642 Title: package ubuntu-docs 12.04.6 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic link '/usr/share/help/ja/ubuntu-help/music-player-notrecognized.page' size has changed from 69 to 4 Status in “ubuntu-docs” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I cannot install all updates. ProblemType: Package DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: ubuntu-docs 12.04.6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Sep 2 23:39:46 2014 DuplicateSignature: package:ubuntu-docs:12.04.6:symbolic link '/usr/share/help/ja/ubuntu-help/music-player-notrecognized.page' size has changed from 69 to 4 ErrorMessage: symbolic link '/usr/share/help/ja/ubuntu-help/music-player-notrecognized.page' size has changed from 69 to 4 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-12-27 (248 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20130213) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-docs Title: package ubuntu-docs 12.04.6 failed to install/upgrade: symbolic link '/usr/share/help/ja/ubuntu-help/music-player-notrecognized.page' size has changed from 69 to 4 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-12 (21 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+bug/1364642/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages Post to : documentation-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~documentation-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
