Bug#1035629: libnlopt-dev: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE

[Nilesh Patra]

Hi

Thanks for explaining it to me.

On 14/05/23 14:08, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 14/05/2023 10.22, Nilesh Patra wrote:
>> Could you help explain where exactly the overwriting is happening?

> In bullseye libnlopt-dev ships /usr/share/doc/libnlopt-dev as a symlink 
> to libnlopt0
> dpkg retains this symlink on upgrades to bookworm
> In bookworm libnlopt-dev ships /usr/share/doc/libnlopt-dev as a directory

I've fixed it with a symlink_to_dir

> ...
> libnlopt-dev ships /usr/share/doc/libnlopt-dev/examples/*, too, which 
> ends up as
> /usr/share/doc/libnlopt0/examples/*, but these could already be files 
> owned by
> another package.

And added a preinst to remove examples/ from libnlopt0, as it really 
should not be there.

Best
Nilesh