It took my a few hours to figure this out (after check all the release between sarge till today). I finally decided to do the upgrades manually by copying the files to my /tmp and doing the commands of postinst and prerm.
First, I wasn't able to reproduce the bug, and that because it happens during upgrades. The symptoms appear on removal. Technical side (upgrading from version A to version B): version A puts the files, create the symlink in the postinst. while upgrading: - version A prerm runs (which has nothing of the symlink yet) - version B preinst runs (doesn't exists for your package) - files are copied. - version A postrm (doesn't exists for your package) - version B postinst regenerates the symlink. Example with the files: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/sendbox2$ ls -l ./usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html lrwxrwxrwx 1 kaplan kaplan 46 2006-12-22 21:57 ./usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html -> /tmp/sendbox2/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libglade/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/sendbox2$ ls -l ./usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html/ total 172 -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 36002 2006-12-15 16:04 GladeXML.html -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 654 2006-12-15 16:04 home.png -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 5057 2006-12-15 16:04 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 5600 2006-12-15 16:04 index.sgml -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 459 2006-12-15 16:04 left.png -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 6783 2006-12-15 16:04 libglade.devhelp -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 7552 2006-12-15 16:04 libglade.devhelp2 [ skipping the rest of the files ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/sendbox2$ ls -l ./usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/sendbox2$ ln -sf `pwd`/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libglade/ `pwd`/usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/sendbox2$ ls -l ./usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html lrwxrwxrwx 1 kaplan kaplan 46 2006-12-22 21:57 ./usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html -> /tmp/sendbox2/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libglade/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/sendbox2$ ls -l ./usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html/ total 172 -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 36002 2006-12-15 16:04 GladeXML.html -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 654 2006-12-15 16:04 home.png -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 5057 2006-12-15 16:04 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 5600 2006-12-15 16:04 index.sgml -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 459 2006-12-15 16:04 left.png lrwxrwxrwx 1 kaplan kaplan 46 2006-12-22 21:59 libglade -> /tmp/sendbox2/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libglade/ -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 6783 2006-12-15 16:04 libglade.devhelp -rw-r--r-- 1 kaplan kaplan 7552 2006-12-15 16:04 libglade.devhelp2 [ skipping the rest of the files ] Notice the "nice" symlink that was added to the file list. Since /usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html already exists as a symlink, ln create the new symlink inside it, and uses the source name for the target name (hence libglade -> /tmp/sendbox2/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libglade/). Ignore the /tmp/sendbox part... it's for the testing (: In version 2.6.0-2 you added the removal of /usr/share/doc/libglade2-dev/html to the prerm. But this script is executed only when we'll upgrade from version 2.6.0-2 onwards. So this bug won't appear while upgrading in the future, but it _will_ affect when upgrading from sarge to etch and removing the package. As this is a "Severity: minor" bug I don't see much to do as to marking it as fixed. Thanks. -- Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: C644 D0B3 92F4 8FE4 4662 B541 1558 9445 99E8 1DA0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
