Package: dpkg
Version: 1.16.0.3
Severity: wishlist

Hey,

as said on irc, it'd be nice if dpkg could handle package upgrade
involving symlinks and directories a bit more nicely.

In this case, libexo-common upgrade replaced two symlinks by
directories, and without any special care, the error is not really
clear.

Debdiff between two packages were:

Differences in libexo-common between 0.6.0-3 and 0.6.1-1
[The following lists of changes regard files as different if they have
different names, permissions or owners.]

Files in second .deb but not in first
-------------------------------------
-rw-r--r--  root/root
/usr/share/doc/exo/html/el/images/exo-preferred-applications-internet.png
-rw-r--r--  root/root
/usr/share/doc/exo/html/el/images/exo-preferred-applications-utilities.png
-rw-r--r--  root/root
/usr/share/doc/exo/html/el/images/exo-preferred-applications-webbrowser-custom.png
-rw-r--r--  root/root
/usr/share/doc/exo/html/el/images/exo-preferred-applications-webbrowser-menu.png
-rw-r--r--  root/root
/usr/share/doc/exo/html/sv/images/exo-preferred-applications-internet.png
-rw-r--r--  root/root
/usr/share/doc/exo/html/sv/images/exo-preferred-applications-utilities.png
-rw-r--r--  root/root
/usr/share/doc/exo/html/sv/images/exo-preferred-applications-webbrowser-custom.png
-rw-r--r--  root/root
/usr/share/doc/exo/html/sv/images/exo-preferred-applications-webbrowser-menu.png

Files in first .deb but not in second
-------------------------------------
lrwxrwxrwx  root/root   /usr/share/doc/exo/html/el/images -> ../C/images
lrwxrwxrwx  root/root   /usr/share/doc/exo/html/sv/images -> ../C/images

Control files: lines which differ (wdiff format)
------------------------------------------------
Installed-Size: [-1120-] {+1356+}
Version: [-0.6.0-3-] {+0.6.1-1+}

(without anything done in preinst)

And upgrade logs:

Unpacking replacement libexo-common ...
dpkg: error processing 
/home/corsac/debian/pkg-xfce/scripts/pbuilder/xfce/build-sid-amd64-trunk/./libexo-common_0.6.1-1_all.deb
 (--unpack):
 unable to open 
'/usr/share/doc/exo/html/C/images/exo-preferred-applications-internet.png.dpkg-new':
 No such file or directory
configured to not write apport reports
                                      Processing triggers for 
hicolor-icon-theme ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 
/home/corsac/debian/pkg-xfce/scripts/pbuilder/xfce/build-sid-amd64-trunk/./libexo-common_0.6.1-1_all.deb

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  coreutils               8.5-1            GNU core utilities
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.13-2           Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1             2.0.98-1+b1      SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  xz-utils                5.0.0-2          XZ-format compression utilities
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt                           0.8.14.1   Advanced front-end for dpkg

-- no debconf information



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