Roberto Lumbreras wrote: > dpkg-repack is unable to copy files if parent directories are not > included in the package: > > # LANG=C dpkg-repack xserver-xorg > cp: cannot create regular file `./dpkg-repack-9333//etc/init.d/xserver-xorg': > No such file or directory > dpkg-repack: Error running: cp -pd /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg > ./dpkg-repack-9333//etc/init.d/xserver-xorg > dpkg-deb: building package `xserver-xorg' in `./xserver-xorg_7.0.22_i386.deb'. > dpkg-repack: Problems were encountered in processing. > dpkg-repack: The package may be broken. > > # cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/xserver-xorg.list > /. > /usr > /usr/share > /usr/share/doc > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/copyright > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/changelog.gz > /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg/NEWS.Debian.gz > /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg
Note that /etc/init.d/xserver-xorg is an obsolete conffile. This apparently breaks what is otherwise an invariant of dpkg, that if a file is included in a package, the directory containing the file is also always included. -- see shy jo
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