On 2013-05-27 13:01, Jakub Wilk wrote: > This is a rather unusual instance of "dpkg won't replace > symlinks-to-directories with directories" problem. It's unusual, because ... > 1) It replaces /usr/share/pyshared/gsw-3.0.1.egg-info (a regular file) > with a directory. > 2) It DOESN'T replace > /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gsw-3.0.1.egg-info with a directory, > because it's now a symlink to a directory. > 3) It follows the symlink when creating > /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gsw-3.0.1.egg-info/dependency_links.txt. ...
Thanks for the analysis. Luckily this seems to be the first failure of this type I encountered. This should be fixed in the tools used (whichever these are) to ensure we always build deterministic packages. We really need to revive that debian-devel thread about having more detailed Contents files to do archive wide analysis of such things :-) Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
