[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#847234: Please help with symlink_to_dir expression (Was: Bug#847234: r-cran-rcurl: directory vs. symlink conflict: /usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/examples)

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 06/12/16 22:34, Christian Seiler wrote:
> On 12/06/2016 11:22 PM, James Cowgill wrote:
>> 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.

There is actually a section in dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) about why this
is a bad idea (it breaks local builds or anyone else who manually
patched your package).

Note that 1.95-4.8-2~ sorts before 1.95-4.8-2~deb8+1 anyway so there is
no issue with backports here.

James

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