On 2016-07-28 02:55, Herbert wrote: Read these two paragraphs from the original report! This is exactly your problem!
>> 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 >> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-unpackphase >> >> >> It is recommended to use the dpkg-maintscript-helper commands >> 'dir_to_symlink' and 'symlink_to_dir' (available since dpkg 1.17.14) >> to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.maintscript. >> Do not forget to add 'Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}' in d/control. >> See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details. > bogofilter-{bdb, sqlite, tokyocabinet} depends on bogofilter-common[0], > which has the copyright file[1]. And I used: That's fine > override_dh_installdocs: > dh_installdocs --link-doc=bogofilter-common Which is also fine, but not sufficient for clean upgrades. Andreas
