Your message dated Thu, 05 Sep 2013 22:03:17 +0000
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and subject line Bug#720152: fixed in latex2rtf 2.3.3-0.3
has caused the Debian Bug report #720152,
regarding latex2rtf-doc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: 
/usr/share/doc/latex2rtf-doc/html
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Package: latex2rtf-doc
Version: 2.3.3-0.2
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:

  jessie -> sid

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...):

0m38.3s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink:
  /usr/share/doc/latex2rtf-doc/html/index.html (latex2rtf-doc) != 
/usr/share/doc/latex2rtf/html/index.html (?)


cheers,

Andreas

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Source: latex2rtf
Source-Version: 2.3.3-0.3

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
latex2rtf, 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 720...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Daniel Leidert <dleid...@debian.org> (supplier of updated latex2rtf package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 23:50:57 +0200
Source: latex2rtf
Binary: latex2rtf latex2rtf-doc
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 2.3.3-0.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <lawre...@debian.org>
Changed-By: Daniel Leidert <dleid...@debian.org>
Description: 
 latex2rtf  - Converts documents from LaTeX to RTF format
 latex2rtf-doc - Converts documents from LaTeX to RTF - documentation
Closes: 720152
Changes: 
 latex2rtf (2.3.3-0.3) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * NMU
   * debian/latex2rtf-doc.preinst: Remove symlink directory in a policy
     compliant way (closes: #720152).
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