Your message dated Fri, 13 Oct 2017 16:13:19 +0200
with message-id
<CAPQ4b8k4sTmpLcyzDvGV_66z-aUeDMaXM21AWz=1tv9-b86...@mail.gmail.com>
and subject line Re: Bug#773059: ogre-doc: unhandled symlink to directory
conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
has caused the Debian Bug report #773059,
regarding ogre-doc: unhandled symlink to directory conversion:
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.
(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org
immediately.)
--
773059: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773059
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems
--- Begin Message ---
Package: ogre-doc
Version: 1.7.4+dfsg1-7
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Control: affects -1 + ogre-doc-nonfree
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:
lenny (ogre-doc-nonfree) -> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie
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 1.17.2)
to perform the conversion, ideally using d/$PACKAGE.mainstscript.
See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details.
Since ogre-doc seems to have reintegrated the content from
ogre-doc-nonfree after lenny, it is also missing
Breaks+Replaces: ogre-doc-nonfree
>From the attached log (usually somewhere in the middle...):
2m54.6s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/ogre-doc/api/html (ogre-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/ogre-doc-nonfree/api/html (ogre-doc-nonfree)
/usr/share/doc/ogre-doc/api/html/GLX_2OgreConfigDialogImp_8h.html (ogre-doc)
!= /usr/share/doc/ogre-doc-nonfree/api/html/GLX_2OgreConfigDialogImp_8h.html
(ogre-doc-nonfree)
/usr/share/doc/ogre-doc/api/html/GLX_2OgreConfigDialogImp_8h_source.html
(ogre-doc) !=
/usr/share/doc/ogre-doc-nonfree/api/html/GLX_2OgreConfigDialogImp_8h_source.html
(?)
/usr/share/doc/ogre-doc/api/html/GLX_2OgreErrorDialogImp_8h.html (ogre-doc)
!= /usr/share/doc/ogre-doc-nonfree/api/html/GLX_2OgreErrorDialogImp_8h.html
(ogre-doc-nonfree)
....
cheers,
Andreas
ogre-doc-nonfree_None.log.gz
Description: application/gzip
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
2014-12-13 22:07 GMT+01:00 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
<manuel.montez...@gmail.com>:
> 2014-12-13 20:08 GMT+00:00 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org>:
>> Package: ogre-doc
>> Version: 1.7.4+dfsg1-7
>> Severity: serious
>> User: debian...@lists.debian.org
>> Usertags: piuparts
>> Control: affects -1 + ogre-doc-nonfree
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> lenny (ogre-doc-nonfree) -> squeeze -> wheezy -> jessie
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> "ogre-doc-nonfree" was removed from unstable in mid 2010 due to "ROM;
> superceded by ogre 1.6.4.dfsg1-1", and 1.6.4.dfsg1-1 was uploaded in
> October 2009, and was the version shipped with squeeze (oldstable, at
> this moment), released in Feb 2011. ogre-doc-nonfree did not even
> ship in squeeze.
>
> On the other hand, "ogre-doc" is not going to be released in Jessie
> (removed from testing and unstable), so this would be only fixable
> with an upload to the next point release for wheezy.
>
> Lenny was first released in Feb 2009, last point release and security
> updates discontinued happened in Feb/March 2012.
>
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/o/ogre-doc-nonfree/news/20100610T185814Z.html
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/o/ogre/news/20091001T152940Z.html
> http://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/
>
>
> I don't know if I understand this correctly, but it seems that when
> this breakage did happen was in the upgrade lenny->squeeze; and
> support for both of these distributions is discontinued already,
> right?
Closing now, the package is not present in any suite that still matters.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
--- End Message ---
