Bug#792852: gcom: copyright file missing after upgrade (policy 12.5)
On 07/19/2015 04:38 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Package: gcom Version: 0.32-2 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, Hi Andreas, Thank you so much for your bug report and all the details. [ ... ] After the upgrade /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/ is just an empty directory. This was observed on the following upgrade paths: lenny - squeeze - ... [ ... ] Note that dpkg intentionally does not replace directories with symlinks and vice versa, you need the maintainer scripts to do this. See in particular the end of point 4 in https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase I tried to find out what caused the problems but the package had a comgt.links file so the symlink should have been created and I'm pretty sure I verified that (but maybe not for lenny-squeeze). Or do you mean that the behavior of dpkg changed and that's why the symlink was not unpacked when using dpkg from squeeze? But since this has been a transitional package since squeeze, maybe it is easiest to just drop it and add unversioned Breaks+Replaces against it to comgt to ensure the buggy package is removed on upgrades. Yes, that sounds like a great plan :) I will prepare a new package and also fix the open bugs. Best, Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#792852: gcom: copyright file missing after upgrade (policy 12.5)
Package: gcom
Version: 0.32-2
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Hi,
a test with piuparts revealed that your package misses the copyright
file after an upgrade, which is a violation of Policy 12.5:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
After the upgrade /usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE/ is just an empty directory.
This was observed on the following upgrade paths:
lenny - squeeze - ...
From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
7m24.3s ERROR: WARN: Inadequate results from running adequate!
gcom: missing-copyright-file /usr/share/doc/gcom/copyright
MISSING COPYRIGHT FILE: /usr/share/doc/gcom/copyright
# ls -lad /usr/share/doc/gcom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Feb 13 15:14 /usr/share/doc/gcom
# ls -la /usr/share/doc/gcom/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Feb 13 15:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 116 root root 2460 Feb 13 15:15 ..
Additional info may be available here:
https://wiki.debian.org/MissingCopyrightFile
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#s-unpackphase
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.mainstscript.
Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control.
See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details.
But since this has been a transitional package since squeeze,
maybe it is easiest to just drop it and add unversioned Breaks+Replaces
against it to comgt to ensure the buggy package is removed on upgrades.
cheers,
Andreas
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