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

[James Cowgill]

Hi,

On 15/03/17 16:01, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> 
> 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?

debian/maintscript (ie without a <package>. prefix) only gets applied to
the first package listed in the control file. So holotz-castle was
fixed, but not holotz-castle-editor.

James

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