Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, Am 09.03.2013 20:27, schrieb Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS): On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 15:53 +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: I checked just now, and some things were picked from the merge-queue/3.5 branch (the default branch on github), namely

Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.03.2013 23:23, schrieb Michael Biebl: Hi, Am 09.03.2013 20:27, schrieb Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS): On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 15:53 +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: I checked just now, and some things were picked from the merge-queue/3.5

Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-25 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 23:34 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 25.03.2013 23:23, schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 09.03.2013 20:27, schrieb Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS): On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 15:53 +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: I checked just now, and

Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi, Am 12.03.2013 18:16, schrieb Michael Biebl: On 09.03.2013 20:27, Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) wrote: It builds fine in Wheezy pbuilder and if you do agree, I'll upload it[1]. looks good to me. Did you have a chance to prepare the upload in the mean time? Michael -- Why is it that all

Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-12 Thread Michael Biebl
On 09.03.2013 20:27, Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) wrote: On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: I think something like this should do: if [ $1 = upgrade ] dpkg --compare-versions $2 lt 3.3.5-3; then .. fi Done. On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 15:53 +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: I

Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-09 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 22:31 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: I think something like this should do: if [ $1 = upgrade ] dpkg --compare-versions $2 lt 3.3.5-3; then .. fi Done. On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 15:53 +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: I checked just now, and some things were picked from the

Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-06 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 13:17 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: 1/ as you no longer mark the symlinks as conffiles, the cleanup in syslog-ng-core.postrm is not necessary. Removed. 2/ you need to remove the existing conffile symlinks in syslog-ng-core.preinst so dpkg converts it to non-conffiles on

Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-06 Thread Michael Biebl
I'd say, we're almost there On 06.03.2013 18:45, Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) wrote: On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 13:17 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: 2/ you need to remove the existing conffile symlinks in syslog-ng-core.preinst so dpkg converts it to non-conffiles on upgrades Remove those in preinst.

Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 06.03.2013 20:44, Michael Biebl wrote: I'd say, we're almost there On 06.03.2013 18:45, Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) wrote: On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 13:17 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: 2/ you need to remove the existing conffile symlinks in syslog-ng-core.preinst so dpkg converts it to

Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-06 Thread Michael Biebl
On 06.03.2013 21:36, Michael Biebl wrote: On 06.03.2013 20:44, Michael Biebl wrote: I'd say, we're almost there On 06.03.2013 18:45, Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) wrote: On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 13:17 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: 2/ you need to remove the existing conffile symlinks in

Bug#690067: Bug#702195: symlink conffiles are not supported, causing problems for dpkg on upgrade/removal and incorrect debsums reports

2013-03-05 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 21:05 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: On 03.03.2013 22:53, Michael Biebl wrote: Seeing the poor handling of symlinked conffiles, I'm wondering if we should also remove them for the other affected packages, which do that: [...] After a closer look, all those packages do