On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 17:49:39 +0200 Andreas Beckmann <a...@debian.org> wrote:
> This does not seem to be the typical dir_to_symlink problem.
It is. Just badly handled so that it became hard to recognize.
from emacs-nox.preinst:
doc_dir=/usr/share/doc/emacs-nox
case "$1" in
install|upgrade)
# Before the unversioning, emacs-{gtk,lucid,nox} packages were
# in a different source package (emacs-defaults) and were arch
# all, and dpkg can't handle dir to symlink transitions.
rm -rf "$doc_dir"
;;
There is dpkg-maintscript-helper for this task.
You most likely want to drop the .preinst and create
emacs-nox.maintscript instead with this content (one line):
<<<<< 8< debian/emacs-nox.maintscript >>>>>
dir_to_symlink /usr/share/doc/emacs-nox emacs-common 1:25.2+1-12~
<<<<< >8 >>>>>
and do the same for -gtk and -lucid with adjusted paths.
Andreas
