Bug#857845: holotz-castle-editor: unhandled symlink to directory conversion: /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE

[Markus Koschany]

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Am 15.03.2017 um 16:39 schrieb Andreas Beckmann:
> Package: holotz-castle-editor
> Version: 1.3.14-8
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at 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

Hi,

I have tested the upgrade path from Stretch to Sid and also used
symlinks_to_dir from dpkg-maintscript. Everything seems fine. Piuparts
also shows the OK status in the PTS.

Could you give me a hint what else is required to fix this issue?

Regards,

Markus

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