Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Andreas,
On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 07:27:01 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: python-qt4-dbg > Version: 4.11.3+dfsg-2 > 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: > > lenny -> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie -> stretch [snip] > 12m44.3s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink: > /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg/changelog.Debian.gz (python-sip4-dbg) != > /usr/share/doc/python-sip4/changelog.Debian.gz (?) > /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg -> python-sip4 > /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg/copyright (python-sip4-dbg) != > /usr/share/doc/python-sip4/copyright (?) > /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg -> python-sip4 > > 12m46.1s ERROR: FAIL: debsums reports modifications inside the chroot: > debsums: no md5sums for libdb4.5 > debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg/changelog.Debian.gz > (from python-sip4-dbg package) > debsums: missing file /usr/share/doc/python-sip4-dbg/copyright (from > python-sip4-dbg package) python-sip4-dbg existed only until squeeze, there is no such package in wheezy. Also, it was built from sip4-qt3 source, there is no such source anymore. What does this have to do with python-qt4-dbg package? How can we fix a bug in a package that no longer exists for several releases? -- Dmitry Shachnev
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