Hi Joesl On 2014-02-01 11:45:44, Joel Rosdahl wrote: > As far as I can tell, neither python-sqlite-dbg nor python-sqlite in > neither wheezy nor jessie contain symlinks for (or in) /usr/share/doc and > don't create any symlinks in preinstall/postinstall scripts.
python-sqlite-dbg in wheezy contains a symlink: $ dpkg -l python-sqlite-dbg ... ii python-sqlite-dbg 1.0.1-9 amd64 ... $ file /usr/share/doc/python-sqlite-dbg /usr/share/doc/python-sqlite-dbg: symbolic link to `python-sqlite' However, python-sqlite-dbg in jessie ships a directory. After a fresh install: $ dpkg -l python-sqlite-dbg ... ii python-sqlite-dbg 1.0.1-10 amd64 ... $ file /usr/share/doc/python-sqlite-dbg /usr/share/doc/python-sqlite-dbg: directory You can see the problem if you install python-sqlite-dbg in wheezy, upgrade to the version from jessie and then remove it (without removing python-sqlite). /usr/share/doc/python-sqlite no longer contains any files apart from README.Debian. copyright and changelog.Debian.gz are missing. So for upgrades this conversion from a symlink to a directory needs special handling: either handle the removal of the symlink in maintainer scripts or use dpkg-maintscript-helper's symlink_to_dir command to do that. Regards -- Sebastian Ramacher
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