Control: tags -1 +help Hi Andreas,
I am out of clues how to fix that in a general manner. I guess I just can't support upgrades from testing versions and from wheezy versions at the same time. I will just aim to have the upgrades from wheezy right and fix the most of jessie-to-jessie upgrades. And I just regret of ever using --link-doc more and more. Would you be able to test upgrades from wheezy to unstable with -10 quickly? O. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014, at 02:58, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: cyrus-imapd-2.4,cyrus-common-2.4 > Version: 2.4.17+caldav~beta10-8 > Severity: serious > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: piuparts > > Hi, > > an upgrade test with piuparts revealed that your package installs files > over existing symlinks and possibly overwrites files owned by other > packages. This usually means an old version of the package shipped a > symlink but that was later replaced by a real (and non-empty) > directory. This kind of overwriting another package's files cannot be > detected by dpkg. > > This was observed on the following upgrade paths: > > wheezy -> jessie (2.4.17+caldav~beta10-8) > wheezy -> sid (2.4.17+caldav~beta10-9) > > For /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE this may not be problematic as long as both > packages are installed, ship byte-for-byte identical files and are > upgraded in lockstep. But once one of the involved packages gets > removed, the other one will lose its documentation files, too, > including the copyright file, which is a violation of Policy 12.5: > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile > > For other overwritten locations anything interesting may happen. > > 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 1.17.2) > to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.mainstscript. > See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details. > > > >From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...): > > 4m16.8s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: > /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common-2.4/changelog.Debian.gz (cyrus-common-2.4) > != /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common/changelog.Debian.gz (cyrus-common) > /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common-2.4/copyright (cyrus-common-2.4) != > /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common/copyright (cyrus-common) > /usr/share/doc/cyrus-imapd-2.4/copyright (cyrus-imapd-2.4) != > /usr/share/doc/cyrus-common/copyright (cyrus-common) > > > There may be more packages failing, but these cannot be tested by > piuparts > due to cyrus-common-2.4 already failing ... > > cheers, > > Andreas > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-Cyrus-imapd-Debian-devel mailing list > pkg-cyrus-imapd-debian-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-cyrus-imapd-debian-devel > Email had 1 attachment: > + cyrus-imapd-2.4_2.4.17+caldav~beta10-8.log.gz > 42k (application/gzip) -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
