Hi Ben, On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 4:50 AM, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > I have committed a new revision which removes the platform-dependent > directory in preinst, allowing the new release to create it as a symlink to > the platform-independent location. > > Please try this change and see whether it addresses the problem you've > reported.
Unfortunately no, looks like you really should use "rm -rf": dmitry /tmp/coverage-3.7 > sudo dpkg -i ../python-coverage_3.7-1_i386.deb (Reading database ... 362476 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace python-coverage 3.4-3 (using .../python-coverage_3.7-1_i386.deb) ... rmdir: failed to remove '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/coverage/htmlfiles': Directory not empty dpkg: error processing ../python-coverage_3.7-1_i386.deb (--install): subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Another way to solve this problem will be to patch coverage to load files from correct directory. For example, in Sphinx we do sed -i -e "s!^package_dir = .*!package_dir = '/usr/share/sphinx'!" \ $(debroot)$(site_packages)/sphinx/__init__.py \ $(debroot)$(py3_site_packages)/sphinx/__init__.py Other items of my previous review still stay in place. Additionally, lintian now emits five "manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry" warnings. -- Dmitry Shachnev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
