[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)

[Christian Seiler]

On 12/06/2016 11:45 PM, James Cowgill wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, you're right. Sorry about the confusion on my part.

Regards,
Christian