Bug#838112: uctodata: fails to upgrade from jessie - trying to overwrite /etc/ucto/es.abr

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2017-01-24 19:30, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Wow, upgrades issues are so full of cases.
> Anyhow, I still don't think we should fix these, if nothing to try to
> have the newer upstream versions and their fairly big diffs into
> stretch.
> 
> I suggest you (Andreas) file a new bug(s) copy-pasting what you wrote
> here, and we (=> Maarten) will possibly deal with it after the current
> testing migrations happen.

#852470

Fixing in git and testing should happen before migration s.t. the
current stretch version is still available for my tests.
(I'll throw the new packages in my piuparts engine.)

See you over there :-)


>> I think you found a bug in dpkg here :-)
> 
> ISTR reading something somewhere that not handling symlinks as conffile
> is a known decision, because it's particuarly hard to do.

#852468

I was more thinking about rm_conffile messing around with something that
is not a conffile.


Andreas