Your message dated Sun, 20 Jan 2019 18:05:24 +0000
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and subject line Bug#919899: fixed in ppl 1:1.2-7
has caused the Debian Bug report #919899,
regarding libppl-{c4,swi}: unhandled symlink to directory conversion:
/usr/share/doc/PACKAGE
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Package: libppl-c4,libppl-swi
Version: 1:1.2-5
Severity: serious
User: debian...@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
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:
stretch -> sid
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#copyright-information
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#details-of-unpack-phase-of-installation-or-upgrade
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.
See dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) and dh_installdeb(1) for details.
>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
0m26.3s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/libppl-c4/changelog.Debian.gz (libppl-c4:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libppl14/changelog.Debian.gz (libppl14:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libppl-c4 -> libppl14
/usr/share/doc/libppl-c4/changelog.gz (libppl-c4:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libppl14/changelog.gz (libppl14:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libppl-c4 -> libppl14
/usr/share/doc/libppl-c4/copyright (libppl-c4:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libppl14/copyright (libppl14:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libppl-c4 -> libppl14
0m39.7s ERROR: FAIL: silently overwrites files via directory symlinks:
/usr/share/doc/libppl-swi/changelog.Debian.gz (libppl-swi:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libppl14/changelog.Debian.gz (libppl14:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libppl-swi -> libppl14
/usr/share/doc/libppl-swi/changelog.gz (libppl-swi:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libppl14/changelog.gz (libppl14:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libppl-swi -> libppl14
/usr/share/doc/libppl-swi/copyright (libppl-swi:amd64) !=
/usr/share/doc/libppl14/copyright (libppl14:amd64)
/usr/share/doc/libppl-swi -> libppl14
cheers,
Andreas
libppl-c4_1:1.2-5.log.gz
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: ppl
Source-Version: 1:1.2-7
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ppl, 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 919...@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
James Clarke <jrt...@debian.org> (supplier of updated ppl package)
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 16:48:25 +0000
Source: ppl
Binary: libppl14 libppl-dev ppl-dev libppl-c4 libppl-doc libppl-swi
Architecture: source
Version: 1:1.2-7
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Science Team
<debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: James Clarke <jrt...@debian.org>
Description:
libppl-c4 - Parma Polyhedra Library (C interface)
libppl-dev - Parma Polyhedra Library (development)
libppl-doc - Parma Polyhedra Library: Documentation
libppl-swi - Parma Polyhedra Library (SWI Prolog interface)
libppl14 - Parma Polyhedra Library (runtime library)
ppl-dev - Parma Polyhedra Library (development binaries)
Closes: 919899
Changes:
ppl (1:1.2-7) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload.
* debian/control: Drop libppl-swi on sh4
* Perform missing symlink_to_dir conversion for /usr/share/doc/package
(Closes: #919899)
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