Your message dated Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:47:35 +0000 with message-id <e1uaqux-0002cq...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#700781: fixed in newt 0.52.14-11.1 has caused the Debian Bug report #700781, regarding python-newt-dbg: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: python-newt-dbg Version: 0.52.14-10 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: squeeze -> wheezy 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: http://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 http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase For switching from a symlink to a directory, the *preinst* script should do something like this: DOCDIR=/usr/share/doc/@@PACKAGE@@ if [ -L $DOCDIR ]; then rm $DOCDIR fi >From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...): 0m57.3s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: /usr/share/doc/python-newt-dbg/changelog.Debian.gz (python-newt-dbg) != /usr/share/doc/python-newt/changelog.Debian.gz (python-newt) /usr/share/doc/python-newt-dbg/changelog.gz (python-newt-dbg) != /usr/share/doc/python-newt/changelog.gz (python-newt) /usr/share/doc/python-newt-dbg/copyright (python-newt-dbg) != /usr/share/doc/python-newt/copyright (python-newt) cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: newt Source-Version: 0.52.14-11.1 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of newt, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to 700...@bugs.debian.org, and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Sebastian Ramacher <sramac...@debian.org> (supplier of updated newt package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing ftpmas...@debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:58:40 +0100 Source: newt Binary: libnewt-dev libnewt-pic newt-tcl python-newt python-newt-dbg libnewt0.52 whiptail Architecture: source amd64 Version: 0.52.14-11.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry <mckins...@debian.org> Changed-By: Sebastian Ramacher <sramac...@debian.org> Description: libnewt-dev - Developer's toolkit for newt windowing library libnewt-pic - Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit, shared library subset kit libnewt0.52 - Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - text mode windowing with slang newt-tcl - NEWT module for Tcl python-newt - NEWT module for Python python-newt-dbg - NEWT module for Python (debug extension) whiptail - Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts Closes: 700781 Changes: newt (0.52.14-11.1) unstable; urgency=low . * Non-maintainer upload. * python-newt-dbg.preinst: Handle symlink to directory conversion. 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