Your message dated Fri, 23 Sep 2016 19:34:14 +0000 with message-id <e1bnweg-0002fc...@franck.debian.org> and subject line Bug#814646: fixed in vlc 2.2.4-6 has caused the Debian Bug report #814646, regarding vlc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE, /usr/share/bug/PACKAGE to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Source: vlc Version: 2.2.2-3 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Control: affects -1 + libvlccore-dev vlc-plugin-fluidsynth vlc-plugin-jack vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-samba vlc-plugin-sdl vlc-plugin-svg vlc-plugin-zvbi libvlc5 kde-runtime kde-runtime-dbg 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 jessie -> stretch 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: https://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 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. >From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...): 1m58.5s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: /usr/share/bug/libvlccore-dev/control (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/bug/libvlccore8/control (libvlccore8) /usr/share/bug/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/bug/libvlccore-dev/presubj (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/bug/libvlccore8/presubj (libvlccore8) /usr/share/bug/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev/NEWS.Debian.gz (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/NEWS.Debian.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev/changelog.Debian.amd64.gz (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/changelog.Debian.amd64.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev/changelog.Debian.gz (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/changelog.Debian.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev/changelog.gz (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/changelog.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev/copyright (libvlccore-dev) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/copyright (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlccore-dev -> libvlccore8 3m6.6s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: /usr/share/bug/vlc-plugin-fluidsynth/control (vlc-plugin-fluidsynth) != /usr/share/bug/vlc-nox/control (vlc-nox) /usr/share/bug/vlc-plugin-fluidsynth -> vlc-nox /usr/share/bug/vlc-plugin-fluidsynth/presubj (vlc-plugin-fluidsynth) != /usr/share/bug/vlc-nox/presubj (vlc-nox) /usr/share/bug/vlc-plugin-fluidsynth -> vlc-nox (similarily for all the other vlc-plugin-* packages) 2m9.5s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks: /usr/share/doc/libvlc5/NEWS.Debian.gz (libvlc5) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/NEWS.Debian.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlc5 -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlc5/changelog.Debian.gz (libvlc5) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/changelog.Debian.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlc5 -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlc5/changelog.gz (libvlc5) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/changelog.gz (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlc5 -> libvlccore8 /usr/share/doc/libvlc5/copyright (libvlc5) != /usr/share/doc/libvlccore8/copyright (libvlccore8) /usr/share/doc/libvlc5 -> libvlccore8 cheers, Andreas
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--- Begin Message ---Source: vlc Source-Version: 2.2.4-6 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of vlc, 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 814...@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 vlc 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...@ftp-master.debian.org) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 21:08:42 +0200 Source: vlc Binary: libvlc-dev libvlc5 libvlccore-dev libvlccore8 vlc vlc-data vlc-nox vlc-plugin-fluidsynth vlc-plugin-jack vlc-plugin-notify vlc-plugin-sdl vlc-plugin-svg vlc-plugin-zvbi vlc-plugin-samba Architecture: source Version: 2.2.4-6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers <pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Sebastian Ramacher <sramac...@debian.org> Description: libvlc-dev - development files for libvlc libvlc5 - multimedia player and streamer library libvlccore-dev - development files for libvlccore libvlccore8 - base library for VLC and its modules vlc - multimedia player and streamer vlc-data - Common data for VLC vlc-nox - multimedia player and streamer (without X support) vlc-plugin-fluidsynth - FluidSynth plugin for VLC vlc-plugin-jack - Jack audio plugins for VLC vlc-plugin-notify - LibNotify plugin for VLC vlc-plugin-samba - Samba plugin for VLC vlc-plugin-sdl - SDL video and audio output plugin for VLC vlc-plugin-svg - SVG plugin for VLC vlc-plugin-zvbi - VBI teletext plugin for VLC Closes: 814646 Changes: vlc (2.2.4-6) unstable; urgency=medium . * debian/*.maintscript: Bump all versions to fix symlink-to-directory conversions. (Closes: #814646) Checksums-Sha1: 3b959761b8f9d1830b3ebe4774ee9a8480982668 5622 vlc_2.2.4-6.dsc ceaa3ca61c20d833d35f3d43834e1f708a25060d 76000 vlc_2.2.4-6.debian.tar.xz Checksums-Sha256: 94e13c7e156144854cb82d1ccdc1e2578b3af3f91dd2a7cfbf34dead0a2b25ac 5622 vlc_2.2.4-6.dsc 303b6617505c9ae1b42e336cc4976f6c54f942dc2fe01ddd98eae4ef4b42b22e 76000 vlc_2.2.4-6.debian.tar.xz Files: b495d683b79b8dfa1a9680ccbcaddc17 5622 video optional vlc_2.2.4-6.dsc 8be6eb6aafc6879c9b96a408cfeb80cf 76000 video optional vlc_2.2.4-6.debian.tar.xz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJX5YEvAAoJEGny/FFupxmTCUwP/RnQnAgL9KlF5sPAb+AiMDbS yDF1O3GRcxieYsnEoCUOUDdQuXq9hZtjRHrxUKIO2LNQjkzyr3q4dqxeFde/bgCI A0d6/1CSK8fRg+1Mnbj5GjlTQzSqnz74H+Zce8FKb360Ap+EHn1HKXMUmnx7ElXZ 8jFMglIOKn/wPqsDERuzwvscoUQi4hFtSVzJ+XVc+SslRWXp98HccZqyDlMD3IVs 5jb2lJOZLqlS3jpNa+melkRdqshws/EoQNJd+mUg6sh5B+OIGFGdQNuKV5++fxfB iWcjWPBIpcPpjYcW+LcCJkHjmEWXmtaegoZWCUFQuiScWey20dvwkGz6WzNTkXyF SiIvCEy6lE+0bg9d21VpTQsxvJrccRRwKQrvFvfNHA3cXPGbaS5eIHyBDIvYOMRc +gc7gBBTdhkfMvF+L4U4xRNPxa53dJsYrNbTafQNLTzmWE1dR8CukjEmuANjUswF A1Lm0E8F5tNNVKkbaL/Hsk7lweZkaoabcubZZYUiorwdLqYXsF6g2TCuPygSr5ir fOraxLoOq+2iGAfs9QOLUZpQXiMu43lfrrtCFtFRFwe91EbNM60ChvPpPXe+1q/S v4D9ohqLtZx0kAfUahbd+BwkxQZtfMOS2L3v/Wbt53gBuLmbGrJW7P5r9DFurVCg e5cDVaDR2o6HQfD5t3zD =TxqX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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