On 12/06/2016 11:22 PM, James Cowgill wrote: > Hi, > > On 06/12/16 21:36, Andreas Tille wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 07:06:39PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >>> Package: r-cran-rcurl >>> Version: 1.95-4.8-1 >>> Severity: serious >>> User: debian...@lists.debian.org >>> Usertags: piuparts >>> >>> ... >>> >From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...): >>> >>> 2m19.9s INFO: dirname part contains a symlink: >>> /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples/CIS (r-cran-rcurl) != >>> /usr/share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples/CIS (?) >>> /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples -> >>> ../../../../share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples >>> /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples/CIS/cis.R (r-cran-rcurl) != >>> /usr/share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples/CIS/cis.R (?) >>> /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples -> >>> ../../../../share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples >>> ... >> >> I tried to fix this the following way. In the Jessie package >> r-cran-rcurl_1.95-4.3-1+deb8u1_amd64.deb the examples link is: >> >> >> $ readlink /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples >> ../../../../share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples >> >> >> Since in the package in unstable examples is a directory I tried >> to fix the upgrade path by >> >> >> $ cat debian/maintscript >> symlink_to_dir /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples >> ../../../../share/doc/r-cran-rcurl/examples 1.95-4.3-1 > > The version number should be the version number immediately before the > one where the dpkg-maintscript stuff is added, not when the symlink was > converted to a directory. > > In this case you probably want to use "1.95-4.8-2~" (if the bug is fixed > in 1.95-4.8-2).
I wouldn't use that version if you ever want to backport that specific version of the package, it's better to specify the previous Debian version directly, in this case 1.95-4.8-1. Regards, Christian
