hi, it turns out that many KDE packages contain a broken symlink of the form
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/../....../common --> ../common this broken symlink confuses 'debdelta-upgrade' ; I attach a patch, you may apply it to /usr/bin/debdelta using # sudo patch /usr/bin/debdelta 0001-debpatch,-debdelta-upgrade-:-do-not-get-confused-by-broken-symlinks.patch a.
From 5715f4648fb1d3b8d9ac462f62253f9782f50cf4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: A Mennucc <mennu...@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 11:53:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] debpatch, debdelta-upgrade : do not get confused by broken
symlinks
---
debdelta/debdelta | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/debdelta/debdelta b/debdelta/debdelta
index b5eebad..9d921d6 100755
--- a/debdelta/debdelta
+++ b/debdelta/debdelta
@@ -1627,6 +1627,9 @@ def do_patch_(delta, olddeb, newdeb, TD, runtime,
file_triples.append((orig,divert,z))
else:
file_triples.append((orig,divert,None))
+ elif not os.path.exists(divert) and os.path.islink(divert):
+ file_triples.append((orig,divert,None))
+ if VERBOSE > 1 : print ' Broken symlink? ',divert
elif not os.path.exists(divert):
file_triples.append((orig,divert,None))
if VERBOSE : print ' Disappeared file? ',divert
--
1.7.10.4
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