On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:45:42PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > Package: perl > Version: 5.10.0-19 > Severity: important > As revealed by lintian, shipping /usr/share/doc/perl/copyright > in perl-base and symlinking /usr/share/doc/perl-base -> perl > is a policy violation.
> The best fix I can see is something like > > perl-base /usr/share/doc/perl-base/copyright > perl-base /usr/share/doc/perl-base/changelog.Debian.gz > perl-base /usr/share/doc/perl/Documentation (and others in perl/) > perl /usr/share/doc/perl/copyright > perl /usr/share/doc/perl/changelog.Debian.gz > perl /usr/share/doc/perl/Changes.gz (and others in perl/) > perl-modules /usr/share/doc/perl-modules -> perl > perl-doc /usr/share/doc/perl-doc -> perl > perl-doc /usr/share/doc/perl/Changes5.000.gz (and others in perl/) > The new perl package would need a > Replaces: perl-base (<= 5.10.0-19) > but I can't see any other obvious upgrade gotchas. I tried this at home, and somewhat surprisingly dpkg wouldn't remove the old perl-base -> perl symlink when upgrading perl-base. I suppose this policy note (section 6.6.4) covers it: A directory will never be replaced by a symbolic link to a directory or vice versa; instead, the existing state (symlink or not) will be left alone and dpkg will follow the symlink if there is one. I think we need to remove the symlink manually in perl-base.preinst on upgrades. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
